I love Joel Embiid, so I'd love to see it from that perspective. Harden's a flawed player, but as a scorer, passer and shooter, he complements Embiid extremely well. I think Doc could make that team into a title contender.
Brooklyn may have to do it at this point, but it's gotta be incredibly disappointing. Kevin Durant is so good that he and Harden alone make that team a contender. If they could have just gotten all three guys on the floor at the same time, they could have been dominant for a long time. But, between Durant's health and Kyrie's vaccination status it never happened, and now it looks like it never will. I'm not high on Brooklyn going forward if they make this deal, even though on paper it's a good fit for Simmons' game. It just places too much on Durant's shoulders, and I don't think you can ask that much of him at this stage of his career.