James Edward Harden Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the Arizona State Sun Devils, where he was named a consensus All-American and Pac-10 Player of the Year in 2009. Harden was selected with the third overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft by the Oklahoma City Thunder. He is an eight-time NBA All-Star and has earned All-NBA Team honors seven times, including six first-team selections. Harden is a two-time member of the United States national team, winning gold medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2014 FIBA World Cup. In 2018, Harden led the league in scoring and was named the NBA Most Valuable Player.
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James Edward Harden Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the Arizona State Sun Devils, where he was named a consensus All-American and Pac-10 Player of the Year in 2009. Harden was selected with the third overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft by the Oklahoma City Thunder. He is an eight-time NBA All-Star and has earned All-NBA Team honors seven times, including six first-team selections. Harden is a two-time member of the United States national team, winning gold medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2014 FIBA World Cup. He recorded the fourth highest 3-point percentage in NBA history for a player under the age of 21 during the 2009–10 season. In 2018, Harden led the league in scoring and was named the NBA Most Valuable Player. He has been called the best shooting guard in the NBA, as well as one of the top overall players in the league. He was named NBA Sixth Man of the year in 2012, and helped the team reach the NBA Finals, where they lost to the Miami Heat in five games. He posted the most consecutive three-point makes by a Houston guard since Dick Dickerson made eight straight in May 1999. He scored a season-high 26 points against the Golden State Warriors on December 7, 2009. During the 2010–11 season, he scored 10-plus points on 54 occasions in all but four of his appearances during the season.
He averaged 16 points, 4. 1 rebounds and 3. 7 assists in 62 games during the 2011-12 season, as he received the NBA lockout-shortened 2011–12 Sixth Man Award. In 2012, he was traded to Houston before the 2012–13 season, and he was subsequently named to the NBA Second Team All-Rookie Second Team. He also won the NBA MVP award for the 2012-13 season and the 2013-14 NBA season. His father, James Harden Sr., is a former NBA player and a former head coach at the University of California, Los Angeles. He won the McDonald’s All-Americans and Parade All-America awards as a junior and senior. He helped his AAU team, Pump-N-Run Elite, to the 2006 Las Vegas Adidas Super 64 championship. He had 34 points in the victory over a DC Assault team which included Michael Beasley, Nolan Smith and Austin Freeman. In the game against Houston Hoops, played on the same day, Harden had 33 points. Harden had similar stats during the previous season: 18. 8 points, 7. 9 rebounds, and3. 9 assists. In November 30, 2008, Harden scored a career-high 40 points in an 88–58 victory over UTEP. Harden finished his sophomore campaign with averages of 20. 1 points, 5. 6 rebounds and 4. 2 assists. After his freshman year, Harden was named first team All-Pac-10 and wasnamed to the conference all-freshman team. After the conclusion of the season, Harden declared for the 2009NBA draft.
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