I think James Harden certainly has an argument over Westbrook. Harden is like 1 RPG off of averaging a triple double, and his team is in third in the West, and his team outside of him is probably as bad as OKC without Westbrook.

Apparently a metastudy of similar deals found something like $450,000+ in tax payer money per manufacturing job. (see the executive summary on p. 3, also interesting talk of “job blackmail”