James Harden

Kobe Bryant has his hand in a lot of things since retiring from the NBA after last season. Including, well, the NBA. We already know that Isaiah Thomas and Kobe have been chatting on the regular since the playoffs started. But he revealed to ESPN.com’s Jackie MacMullan that the player he affectionately termed “Mighty IT” [...]

The regular season MVP award in the NBA may be the most bandied about, highly-regarded, and fiercely coveted individual award in all of professional sports. It also serves as a snapshot when looking back at a given season in NBA history to remember which players, teams and story lines were at the forefront of the [...]

Over the weekend, Russell Westbrook officially clinched a triple-double season average, and passed Oscar Robertson for most triple-doubles in a season with 42. That’s once heck of a weekend. Then to top it off, on Sunday night, he has his 3rd 50-point triple-double of the season, which included a buzzer-beating game-winning three-pointer over Denver. On [...]

For those who haven’t noticed, the Mike D’Antoni and James Harden experiment is going quite well in Houston. The Rockets are 51-24, James Harden is having one of the more impressive seasons for any NBA player in the past 20 years, Eric Gordon is actually healthy and contributing and not just an albatross and the [...]

James Harden, by his own admittance, is in pain. He’s dealing with a left wrist injury, one that visibly factored into his 5-of-20 shooting performance during the Houston Rockets’ Tuesday night loss to the Golden State Warriors. Perhaps it’s a good time for him to take a few games off and get right for the playoffs. [...]

In a league where healthy star players occasionally rest, causing league commissioner Adam Silver to send a memo to teams, we do have some key guys who are always out there. Ironically, the two guys who are leading the MVP race have played in every game this season. That’s right, James Harden and Russell Westbrook [...]

As we all know, the race for league MVP this season has been an epic two-horse race almost from the very beginning, as Russell Westbrook and James Harden have each been having all-time great seasons. That makes the decision for who should be honored as the league’s most valuable player extremely difficult, and former league [...]

Another night, another superhero performance from James Harden. And, apparently, Usain Bolt reference. On Monday night, Harden hit a layup with 2.5 seconds remaining to put the Houston Rockets up, for good, over the Denver Nuggets, 125-124. Afterward, it seems, he was feeling himself, per the Denver Post‘s Nick Kosmider: “I felt like Usain Bolt,” Harden [...]

Whatever you do, don’t suggest to Patrick Beverley that James Harden doesn’t have the NBA’s MVP award on lock. Per The Vertical’s Michael Lee: [tweet https://twitter.com/MrMichaelLee/status/841158496343191552] The MVP debate has been diluted down to Russell Westbrook and Harden. LeBron James needs to be there, and Kawhi Leonard’s argument has picked up steam in recent weeks, but [...]

As the final month of the NBA season winds down, prognosticators around the league and every grouping of NBA fans around the country will participate in the debate: Who should win the 2016-17 NBA MVP award Russell Westbrook or James Harden? The reigning two-time MVP has already given his opinion/prediction on the matter and his [...]