James Harden

LeBron James has been a legitimate MVP candidate and worthy of the award on a yearly basis for the past 10-12 years. He is doing his thing once again in the 2017-18 season, averaging 27.4 points, 9.1 assists and 8.6 rebounds on 55% shooting with a PER of 28.6. Because of his performance and all [...]

Mike D’Antoni has been around the block as an NBA head coach, with stints with the Phoenix Suns, New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers and now the Houston Rockets. He has coached some of the greatest players of the past 15 years in the NBA including Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Dwight Howard, Carmelo Anthony, Amar’e [...]

After beating up the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night, the Houston Rockets have now won 16 straight games. They’re also flat-out owners of the NBA’s best record and, by extension, the Western Conference’s No. 1 seed. Obviously, they’re pretty excited about their recent play. Er, actually, maybe not. When asked by ESPN.com’s Tim MacMahon [...]

The Houston Rockets are having quite the season thus far, at 47-13 they currently possess the best record in the NBA and have the No. 1 seed in the western conference by way of tiebreaker over the Golden State Warriors. They are also an incredible 30-1 when their three best players, James Harden, Chris Paul [...]

Have you ever played NBA 2K on a level that you shouldn’t really be playing on to be competitive just to see what crazy numbers you could put up? That is essentially what James Harden did against the Orlando Magic last night. He became the 1st player in NBA history to score 60 points and [...]

Things turned chippy between the Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Clippers’ during their Monday night contest—and they apparently devolved even further after the final buzzer. On the heels of the Clippers’ victory, James Harden (who did not play), Trevor Ariza and Gerald Green went into Los Angeles’ locker room looking for Austin Rivers (who also [...]

The Houston Rockets have been playing good basketball as of late after a mini swoon a few weeks back, but they are still not playing at their highest level without their resident MVP candidate James Harden. Harden has missed the past six games with a grade 2 hamstring sprain, the team has gone 4-2 in [...]

The Houston Rockets don’t have to worry about soldiering on without James Harden for much longer. He’s nearing a return from his Grade 2 left hamstring strain. From ESPN 97.5 in Houston’s Kelly Iko: James Harden is nearing a return to the court and “should be back soon, anytime next week”, according to a member [...]

The Houston Rockets just became Chris Paul’s team for the next few weeks. The Rockets superstar shooting guard and potential MVP favorite at the moment, James Harden, will miss at least two weeks of action as he recovers from a grade 2 hamstring strain suffered in the Rockets-Lakers game on Sunday night. [tweet https://twitter.com/TheRocketsWire/status/947997919784980481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] This [...]

James Harden has been second on the NBA’s MVP ballot in each of the last two seasons. Right now, he’s playing like someone determined to turn his runner-up status into a first-place finish. And that makes sense. Who wouldn’t want to prioritize winning the Maurice Podoloff Trophy when they’ve come so very close to snagging [...]