James Harden

Who is James Harden you ask?  Well let’s just say he is one of my favorite players and a great NBA player.  He went to college at Arizona State.  There he played shooting guard, which he still plays today.  His freshman year Harden averaged 17.8 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.2 assists a game.  In his sophomore year he averaged 20.1 points, 4.2 assists and 5.6 rebounds a game. 

Then he got drafted.  He got drafted third overall and went to Oklahoma City Thunder and played there for three years. In his first NBA season he averaged 22.9 points a game.  In his second season he wasn’t that good.  He only averaged 12.2 points a game but did play all 82 games of the season.  In his last year with the Thunder on April 12, 2012, he scored a career high of 40 points and a win over the Phoenix Suns.  In his third year with the thunder he averaged 16.8 points a game. 

In his fourth year, he was traded to the Houston Rockets.  He had another spectacular game on December 27, 2012.  Then he scored thirty points in one game and made the All Star team.  He finished his first season with the Rockets with a career high averaging 25.9 points 5.8 assists and 1.8 steals a game.  In the 2013 – 2014 offseason, they signed Dwight Howard making the Rockets a superpower team.  That year Harden made the Western Conference All Star team.  He ended the season again with great stats: 26.8 points, 5.8 assists and 2 steals a game.  He is still playing with the Rockets today and continues to be an awesome player and will leave behind a legacy.