James Harden should be the 2016-17 NBA MVP.
Then consider what Harden did as a creator for others. Meanwhile, Paul missed several weeks of action, but when he was with the Clippers, he was simply phenomenal, and remains the best true pure point guard in the league. Harden scored a whopping 1.53 points per shot, becoming the fourth player in National Basketball Association history (Adrian Dantley, Karl Malone, Kevin Durant) to hit that mark while taking at least 18 attempts per game. We know what we're doing in the playoffs and who we're playing against. That's while having a better assist percentage than Nash in both of those seasons, as well. "He's the MVP in my opinion". Not this season. While Westbrook, who is averaging a league-best 31.9 points per contest to go with 10.7 rebounds and 10.4 assists, is still regarded as the favorite, there is a trio of studs who have made things extremely hard for the voters. Usually known as a pure scorer, Harden has transformed into a floor general for the Rockets by averaging 29.2 points and 11.2 assists per game. There certainly isn't an eight-game difference between the two, which is now the gap between Houston and Oklahoma City in the standings.
"I thought winning was what this is about", Harden said on Sunday. Player-for-player, the Rockets' and Thunder's rosters are basically evenly matched.
Ryan Anderson made six 3-pointers for the Rockets and finished with 20 points and Capela had 22 points and 10 rebounds. But even with all this said, I'd never actually put my money against Westbrook. "I had open looks, and those shots are ones I normally would take". Trevor Ariza added 15 points.
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Both Russell Westbrook and James Harden deserve to win the MVP Award but only one is going to take it home. And yet there is an element of Houston's game which leaves some wondering whether its success will continue when the postseason begins on Saturday. Of the top five seasons for total points created, the highest TS% hovered around 52%. Though Leonard is in the middle of the pack amongst MVP candidates in points, assists, and rebounds, his team looks like a well-oiled machine under direction from Head Coach Gregg Popovich. "There's a level of experience that you have to have". They were just 18-21 this year when Russ had over a 40 percent usage rate and they were 0-2 against the Rockets.
Robinson also had more points, assists and offensive rebounds than Olajuwon with a lower turnover rate and a higher player efficiency rating.
Breaking Robertson's record was just one highlight of Westbrook's Sunday night reel. The first to accomplish this unbelievable feat, of course, was Oscar Robertson, who averaged 30.8 points, 11.4 assists and 12.5 rebounds in the 1961-62 season while putting up a total of 41 triple-doubles, a record that Westbrook broke this past Sunday with his 42nd triple-double of the year in a 106-105 win over the Denver Nuggets, a game in which he scored 50 points, dropped 10 dimes, grabbed 16 boards and also hit a game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer to officially eliminate the Nuggets from playoff contention and also set up a first-round matchup with Harden and the Houston Rockets in the process. No, that hasn't been done since Oscar Robertson.
Kings: Veterans Arron Afflalo, Darren Collison, Tyreke Evans, and Kosta Koufos were given the day off. ... Koufos played Sacramento's first 66 games but has sat out the past four and seven of the past 12. That's a fifth of a point more than Westbrook, who comes in under other point guards like Goran Dragic, Mike Conley, and Damian Lillard.
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