Is harden top 5 player in the NBA? First take quarantine shares its thoughts

Rings are always the argument for ESPN. Except when it comes to Giannis, makes no sense. Max literally said Steph has more rings than Harden, so he's better. Okay, so what about Giannis? smh.

 

You get a Travis Scott too often.
2-15 type nights but he finessed 20 free throws and got an "efficient" 30 points.

 

Giannis, amongst others, gets to FT line more often than Harden.

Spew the hate equally.

 

LMAO at guys like AD infront of him

 

For Giannis it's his two way dominance, scoring efficiency and the fact that he's accomplished this many personal accomplishments by 25. A lot of his hype has to do with his potential given that context.

 

Wait there was a ranking that had Lillard over Harden? I find that hard to believe.

 

There’s been plenty of talk where thats happened. I’m not even going to waste my time going into that. It’s trash

 

Well just so you know as someone this board sees as overly harsh on Harden, that's an abusrdly dumb take. Blazer fans would probably disagree.

AD over Harden is almost as bad but a tad bit more justifiable given his age and two way ability but AD has accomplished little relative to Harden.

 

You are part of the excuse making and BS narrative.

Giannis is judged on potential while Harden is judged on postseason.

The award should be based on performance plain and simple. Giannis in a much weaker conference has sharted the bed much worse, especially in the playoffs.

Not even ONE conference finals appearance is an embarrassment for a 2 time MVP.

Media and hating fans like you should be ashamed of your bias and personal subjectivity.

Harden will have 3 consecutive scoring titles of 30 points or more, which has not happened since MJ the GOAT.

Giannis may be 7 feet but he comes up small in big games. MVP my ass.

https://www.landofbasketball.com/awards/nba_scoring_leader_year.htm

 

That's where the Finals MVP comes into play.... both have to reach it as the best player.

The regular season award has to be reformed, good times when non pure scorers like Nash could win two.

 

Choke on this chowd.

 

That season and 2014-2015 season are my two favorite Harden seasons. I've watched plenty of his 18-19 highlight videos.

 

Keep choking you facker.

Well now that he's going to win his third straight scoring title, he's starting to get into some pretty rare air in NBA history. He just put up three straight seasons averaging 30.4, 36.1, and 34.4 while shooting a combined average of 44/36% and 4.3 3PM a night. Monster type production. In the history of the league winning 3 scoring titles puts Harden in a group of Neil Johnston/Bob McAdoo/George Mikan for the 4th most all time. Next up he'll have the Durant/George Gervin/Iverson who have 4 total.




https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog...u-think-james-harden-finishes-his-career-with

 

What's more amazing is the Assists # for Harden while winning scoring title. Iverson was averaging only 5 assists when he was winning those scoring titles, while Harden is/was averaging at least 7 assists and averaging around 9 assists during this scoring run. 9 Assists from 2014 to 2019!!!