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The Eastern Conference hasn’t had a real rivalry — a nasty, fierce, hate-each-other kind of rivalry — in years. Actually, decades.

The Ben Simmons-James Harden trade could be changing all that. Brooklyn and Philadelphia could be changing all that.

“Can I just tell you how appreciative I am as a fan that now in the Eastern Conference we have a full-blown rivalry?” ESPN analyst Jay Williams said on the network after the trade. “We have teams that don’t like each other.