if we're playing 'choose your all-star', Harden would not be my first pick. with that said, he is a proven commodity. i think you have to go with the proven commodity in this situation. also, harden is still fairly young and in his prime, so parker's youth doesn't give him that much of an advantage as a long-term asset.
i would be pretty darned happy if the jazz got Parker. He is probably the better fit for the current growing jazz team. if the current jazz team traded parker for harden, that wouldn't be enough to make the team a title contender. harden probably wouldn't like it, and (barring a bunch of other win-now type moves) we'd end up losing him when his contract ran out.
we played sorry, let's get jabari!