James harden checks out with a season high 55 points on 17⁄26 shooting and 10⁄16 from 3pt
Also has 7 assists in the game and 11⁄14 FT
James Harden has scored 50+ for the second time since he left Houston, he has been on a heater lately.
Box: https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401810123
Give him the MVP. He’s trying to prevent OKC from getting a top pick.
Saviour of the league
Harden saw the ending of MHA and decided this world needed a hero
You either die a villain with the foul baiting or live long enough to be a hero.
James Severus Harden
My hero, my goat!
Agent Harden is just doing his best to not make it too obvious
Please no one trade with the Clips for Harden. We need him to save the league
Valid argument
This OKC villain narrative is so much more fun than last season lmao this is such a funny thing that everyone is uniting around🤣
one emoji turned your comment from a reletively normal one into a dumb one, you look like an ass
What.
I look like an ass because I said it’s funny and laughed..? I don’t get it? God forbid a fella have fun in here lol
U bum.
I guess lmao
thats retardditors police for you
UNC still got it man he’s unbelievable
Top 3⁄5 ISO scorer of all time.
I mean statistically he is pretty much the best ISO scorer ever and its not particularly close, at least for players with tracked iso numbers
Depends on the value you put on games that really matters.
1 being mj whos 2 in your list?
michael beasley
Austin Rivers
If you take volume and efficiency into account, Harden is best of all time I believe
Raptors Brandon Ingram
ISO Joe
KD
We can directly compare their primes tho and harden scores significantly more on better efficiency when isoing
Make em Dance Lance
Raymond Felton
Top 1 I’ve ever seen play. And I can’t think of anyone even close to him
What does North Carolina have to do with this?
Absolute carry job by Harden
get the man some help
He’s got Yanic Niederhaüser what more could you possibly need
He could definitely use a second Yanic Niederhaüser
He’s not my GOAT. How many Yanic Niederhausers does he need?
Ive watched very little basketball this season cause it has been nothing but bad vibes for the clippers pretty much since the playoffs ended, and pretty much my only memory thus far is seeing him get trotted out and thinking “that sure is a long name on a jersey”
Honestly no, trade him to a needy team to get a pick or two and try to start a rebuild. Ignore my flair of course
Clippers don’t have their pick, they really have no incentive to start their rebuild this season.
They got my guy playing like his prime days to beat the Hornets. 😭
Im shocked this only the second time hes dropped 50 since leaving Houston.
Playstyle changed to main facilitator and feeding his team’s number 1 options and get everyone involved. But this Clippers team so bad that he’s forced to fully become Rockets Harden again.
ISO GAME
Nets cooked his hamstring and he lost his burst so he switched to being top 2 in the league in assists every year.
One of the more underrated players in the league I swear, no one recognizes how crazy that shift was
He didn’t ‘switch’ anything lol Harden led the league in assists before he ever set foot in Brooklyn, you guys just never appreciated how fucking good he was because the narrative was ‘selfish stat padding’ type shit. He was that good of a facilitator already during his scoring peak, he just adapts his play to what his team looks like and needs.
Iirc he started shooting guard on the rockets, then became pg a few years later. What’s nuts is nothing changing scoring wise with the switch lol. Just shot up to 9 assists lmao
I remember watching Harden put up absolute insane statlines by the end of the game under D’antoni. His teammates on the Rockets got paid bc he was an insane playmaker as well.
Bruh looking back at it, some of those Rockets rosters were so horrible! But, they looked great because of what Harden can bring
He was never the first option since leaving Houston
Franchise record
Oldest 55 pts NBA record too?
Crazy too how he’s never included when talking about how good Lebron, Curry, and KD is still at their age. Harden definitely belongs in that group.
Yeah, he’s also still got more years ahead of him at this level at this rate.
He should be soon.
I’ve been telling people he’s the best scorer I’ve ever witnessed play the game for a decade now but all I get told is FoUl BaItEr
Casuals can’t quite grasp what exactly he does on every possession, dribbling methodically, breaking down the defender’s timing and knowing when and how to create a play.
Casuals will be casuals, relying on hand-picked lowlights to define a player lol.
That FT-hunting phase seriously damaged his image. It was so hard to watch that they literally changed rules over it. Plus that stepback reaaaally looked like a travel sometimes
His ability to do a quick pitter patter dribble, cross, cross, blow by ANYONE in the league and with a 100% success rate is the reason I think he’s the greatest. I’ve never seen anyone’s crossover have a 100% success rate.
He’s been better than Curry for years now…
come on now
Really wish the Hornets kept it closer to see him pad the box score a bit more. He was not missing and didnt slow down at all
Could have easily had 10 more
Gotta save the tank for that b2b for clippers tomorrow
Rockets Harden forced to come out to get this Clippers team some wins
Uncguardable tour I love this man
Equals Kobe and 6 to go till MJ
Hardens better than Kobe and I’m tired of pretending he’s not.
Holy fuck
Even at 36 he is still the system. Get this man some help (or get him off the Clippers)
Just had to beat maxey before he could check out
Harden is not tryna miss the playoffs
My man James, doing it for the league, for the game, for the world!
Fuck giving OKC a top lottery pick, make that play-in!! Haha
Let’s go UNCs!
Scores 55 and they win. Why doesn’t he just score 55 every night? Is he stupid?
Don’t tempt the man…
Harden with the “Im still here” game
Tears in my eyes my goat still has it
Rockets have long been a favourite team since I had a life sized poster of Hakeem in my room.
I was always disappointed things didn’t go better in the T-Mac Yao era. Then there was the 27 missed 3’s. That Harden team was probably one of the best ever to not win a chip.
Harden just keeps amazing with how he can dominate games like this.
Wtf is the league gonna do if the clippers win a ring this year but then it turns out Kawhi and Ballmer 900% circumvented the cap? Jk of course they’re gonna sweep it under the rug
well thankfully they’re 5-11 so they may not even make the playoffs
Doubt this will happen but the 2018-19 Rockets had a similarly bad start and by the start of the playoffs they were talked about as serious contenders. Don’t underestimate locked in Harden.
i’m praying he can do that again just to keep okc from getting a lottery pick to be honest
Who tf would they spend that money on?
A ring? Brother we are hoping and coping that we make the play-in
Can the clips send him to a good team for ffs?
Please don’t let this dude end up in Houston. 😭
I stood up and clapped
yes getting that doordash coupon
Mofo don’t age. Beard to Houston for FVV and a First please. Thanks.
55 points ? Pathetic , that would have been 60 in his prime, he is so washed it’s unbelievable
Jeeeeeez
Wade was painting his nails on the bench at this age
I mean people can and will probably argue about Harden and Wade for their career, but this version of Harden at 36 is better than Wade was at 30.
Can’t believe Harden just starting playing like it’s 2019 again.
Prime Harden is back babyyy 😭
Vintage
Bro said enough is enough
Is he the second oldest after Kobe’s final game to score 55+?
Houston, you know what to do.
Washed Harden looking like peak Harden. Holy hell, Silver needs to do something about this league….ya’ll can’t be making scoring THIS easy. Role players are dropping 50, washed players are dropping 50. It’s making a mockery of the game, legit records are being erased by hyper inflated stats made possible by the easiest era for offense in league history. Don’t EVER compared modern scoring with past scoring, there is no comparison, period. MJ would be averaging 45 in this cupcake era.
Time to take your meds grandpa
lol the corpse of Harden dropping 55. Not a lick of a defense in todays game
Corpse of Harden still better than 70% of the league lmao, respect the man hating ahh fool
70%? The man will probably get another All-NBA this year, just like last year.
Hopefully, but then again it’s Harden. Dude averaged 30/6/8 in ‘16 and didn’t even get 3rd team all-nba lol.
tbf the hornets have a bottom 3 defense in the league lol
Dude is way more alive than the rest of the team bruddah
Why doesn’t everyone else drop 55 then
No defense but people claim this is the most skilled era ever. Meanwhile old dudes like harden and Steph lighting them up.
Those are two of the GOAT scorers dude
Nobody can put up stats in a meaningless way like Harden can
The Clippers should blow this all up
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Enjoy the season LOL
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