Nobody wants to make a sign-and-trade deal in the NBA. You won’t get fair value. 

Typically, you’re being done a favor. The departing free agent doesn’t have to agree to a sign and trade. They’re a free agent: they can go where they please. 

With that in mind, the Philadelphia 76ers will hope to retain James Harden as a free agent this summer.

It’s of vital importance to this team: otherwise, they won’t get fair value for him.

They could lose him for nothing. With that in mind, a sign and trade would be better than that doomsday scenario. 

Here’s one that sends him to the Phoenix Suns.