The Brooklyn Nets are on a six-game losing streak and that apparently has winds of change blowing. Would GM Sean Marks make a big shakeup to help support Kevin Durant for the team's playoff run?

With just six days to go before the NBA trade deadline, we got a bombshell news update from Shams Charania via The Athletic.

Charania reported:

“There’s expectation that both the 76ers and Nets will engage in dialogue on a deal around Simmons for Harden, multiple sources say, with Philadelphia holding a chest of role players in Seth Curry, Tyrese Maxey and Matisse Thybulle that could sweeten a potential package.”

That report came not long after this from ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski:

So when you hear that Harden may be on the trade block, and you know he's playing poorly, and now he's missing his third game in the last five contests, it begs the question: is he really injured here, or are the Nets holding him out for a pending blockbuster? Is his being banged up part of why he's on the trade block, the Nets not feeling they can rely on his availability? What's really going on?

Harden missed a game vs. Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets with left hamstring tightness on Jan. 26. Then he missed the next game at Golden State with a strained hand. Apparently that hand injury was originally sustained a couple weeks ago, but flared up the day the team played the Golden State Warriors. He said he couldn't move it at all that day.

The Nets star played vs. the Suns and the Kings, but it wasn't his best basketball. Prior to another missed game Friday vs. the Utah Jazz, Steve Nash shared more about the hamstring, which has now kept him out of two of the last five games.

“Yeah, I just think he wants to, we want to be cautious with him,” said Nets coach Steve Nash. “So just build up his strength a little bit for one or two more days, and hopefully he's able to go on Sunday but whenever we get that strength and that recuperation. [He has] a little strength deficit, but we feel like he'll be safe to go, but just being cautious.”

Will he need an MRI?

“I don't think it's that bad,” said Nash. “I think it's more just precaution, really make sure we can strengthen him, give him an extra day, see if that gives us big dividends 'cause it's not worth risking him being– you know like last year where we lost him for extended period so just being very cautious.”

When the Nets coach says “like last year”, Nash is referring to Harden's grade two right hamstring strain he sustained last season. At first that issue wasn't so bad, but he tried to come back and play through it too soon, and on more than one occasion. It sounds like Nash is acknowledging this and does not want to repeat any history with the left hammy now.

Did Harden feel it last game? Is that perhaps why he only dropped four points?

“Yeah, I think… the last one, for sure I think he felt some awareness of it. So I think it was a factor. I know it was a factor.”

So that would explain some of these plays where Harden looked fatigued or disengaged.

So to recap: Harden has hamstring tightness, and it doesn't need an MRI yet it has persisted enough to keep him out of two games, and limit him in a third. And like Nash says, precaution is important. Of course, there are those conspiracy theorists who'll still say the Nets are keeping him out of the lineup to avoid a setback blowing up a pending win-win trade.

On Jan. 12th, the Big 3 of Kevin Durant Kyrie Irving, and James Harden went into Chicago and destroyed a first-place Bulls team. And now, not even one month later, that feels like 35 years ago. Nets fans should hope this hamstring injury is just a blip on the radar. They can't make it to that All-Star break fast enough. But who'll still be on the team?