HARDEN TURNS INTO BEN SIMMONS, GREG NORMAN’S DOUBLE BOGEY & BRADY FINALLY CATCHES A BREAK ...

You know who won the Nets-Sixers trade?

No one did.

Maybe the most delicious irony of all is that when it was all on the line for the Sixers, James Harden turned into Ben Simmons.

And was afraid to shoot the ball.

No kidding, there was a point the other night when the Sixers were being eliminated by the Heat when I started to think I was going to have more shot attempts in the second half than Harden did.

One of these days maybe the Knicks will have a young star like Luka.

There had to be some times, during a couple of those blowout losses to the Penguins, when Rangers fans must have been wondering where Henrik Lundqvist was when their team really needed him.

Kyrie Irving just isn’t going to shut up, is he?

It’s worth noting that Erik Spoelstra of the Heat is already a Hall of Fame coach.

Jeanie Buss says she’s consulting with her old boyfriend, Phil Jackson, on how to fix the Lakers, and all I keep thinking is what could possibly go wrong with that?

My friend Barry Stanton, upon learning what Tom Brady is going to make from Fox when he retires, points out how short a run Joe Montana had at NBC when Joe was still the GOAT.

Greg Norman, who wants his shameless flacking for this new Saudi league to somehow appear noble, said this the other day when addressing the Saudi government’s alleged and brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi:

“Look, we’ve all made mistakes, and you just want to learn from those mistakes and how you can correct them going forward.”

Nobody asked this meathead how he thinks that helps Khashoggi.

Norman isn’t a frontman for this new league because he thinks it’s good for golf.

He thinks it’s good for Norman.

Same as Phil Mickelson did. The two of them deserve each other.

It is going to be big tennis fun at Roland Garros to see if the kid, Carlos Alcaraz ,is ready to win the French Open at the tender age of 19.

And while we’re on the subject of tennis:

Man oh man, wouldn’t it be something to see Roger Federer have one more great day on Centre Court at Wimbledon?

The way Jeff McNeil is hitting now for the Mets?

That’s the way he always hit before last season.

Gleyber Torres seems to have gotten it into his head that he’s still supposed to be a baseball star.

John Henry’s Penguins have more firepower than Henry’s Red Sox right now.

“Bosch: Legacy” is everything I thought it was going to be.

And more.

Does Kevin Durant still think Charles Barkley is being mean to him?

I really was genuinely happy for Touchdown Tom, though, when I heard about the Fox deal.

Finally, the guy catches a break.