At first glance when you see James Harden’s stats for this past season, 29/6/7 per game, it’s shocking that he didn’t make any of the three All-NBA teams. Once you really start thinking though, is it really that shocking? He is someone who treats defense like a joke and when you remember the six guards who made the teams ahead of him, it becomes more understanding as to why he was left off. That still won’t prevent him or his teammate Jason Terry from questioning how it happened though.
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After listening to that, keep this in mind. In order for Harden to have made it on to one of the three All-NBA teams, one of the following players would have had to necessarily been left off: Stephen Curry, Russell Westbrook, Chris Paul, Damian Lillard, Klay Thompson and Kyle Lowry.
Would you remove any of those guys for Harden, Sure, Lillard and Lowry are easy targets but their overall contribution to their team was better than what Harden did for Houston this past season.
