@@Ejp23_ bros acting like harden wasnt facing the avengers in the conference finals everytime. LeBron has only beat them once out of 4 go arounds. Even the best can barely overcome them casual
@yaboycurtis1103 What, tf do you mean? He violated the whole nba in 2018, in the playoffs he did again, but how they winning when is a one man show, he was giving his all but the team didn't do the job right, you're just a hater
@@tyresejones3535 ai scored 51 on kobe in the finals he never won one but jamal murray beat an old kyle lowry in the playoffs and didnt score nearly as much. I got Allen Iverson
The greatest iso scorer in NBA history doesn't have the rules to his advantage and certainly doesn't rely on cheap tricks to draw fouls. Harden is also almost a complete liability everywhere on the floor when the ball isn't in his hands. He doesn't give himself any advantage never moving off ball but always needing another quick guard next to him. His teams will always fall short on defense and straight will to win mainly from him and he got overtaken by Booker a while ago. Wilt Chamberlain is the greatest iso scorer of all time followed by MJ
@@tyresejones3535harden averaged 29 ppg in 8 seasons in the playoffs in h-town he has bad games rarely bad playoff series Jamal is great but still not on that level yet but definitely could be with longevity
@@notmytruthTHEtruth Curry is a shooter and Lebron is a playmaker/slasher. Obviously an over simplification of their games but scoring a lot of points and being a scorer are much different things. Both Curry and Lebron are elite scorers, but not as elite as prime harden cause of how efficiently and consistently he was able to score with pure isolation basketball. Lebron and curry scored more within the flow of the offense.
Real fans know that this harden was the product of mike d’antoni system essentially having him iso , other coaches don’t like this style so you don’t see him do it as much
I literally hated the warriors for years cause they literally ruined prime Harden chances to win a ring for him and Rockets. Especially when they had CP3 on that roster
This is not because of the rules, if the team needs him to score he will. Those haters still said that Harden success because of free throws and disappear in playoffs because they don't watch him play and he almost beat the prime Warriors also average 35 against them
He started declining after suffering a grade 2 hamstring while proceeding to play 53 min on it in game 7 vs the bucks. Age also played an underlying factor too, coupled with injuries. He can still score in bunches and facilitate at an ATG level, though
His athleticism was key, he cant get those blow by dunks anymore and he cant bounce into his shot as flawlessly anymore. I almost forgot how good he was watching him on the 76ers now. He shows flashes here and there but age is catching up 😢
when i was like 4 or 5 i was at my cousins house and they were watching the rockets game with prime james harden in it and that was the first ever player i liked when i heard the name Harden for 3 i was like ooooo he has a nice beard and from that day harden was my favorite but ever sense he got traded to 76ers he just got a bit worse and wasnt as good as his prime but he still on my top 10
I swear ever since he got rid of his mohawk he ain't been the same 😂dude requesting trades every season his game didn't fall off necessarily but his scoring dropped a bit of course playing next to other stars does that along with age but idk ever since he left Houston he ain't the same harden we knew
his game definitely took a noticeable substantial dip his first step is not there anymore. he's still an all star level player just no longer a superstar
This man went head to head with the Warriors' big 4 juggernaut and nearly came out on top. Harden was far and away the best player on the floor in every matchup they had.
No one younger than me will ever understand what it was like watching James harden in 2017-2020 challenging the warriors and came the closest out of anyone ever to beat them.
Everyone likes to talk about how curry changed the game You could not play a pick up game of ball 2015-18 without someone taking a stepback 3 or euro stepping
Truly a generational scorer. A once in a lifetime shooter/dribbler/playmaker. This man had literally the full package offensively. If it wasn’t for Injury’s and literally playing against the most stacked teams in nba history he probably would’ve at least had 3 championships under his belt and be in the GOAT CONVO. I’m talking harden over MJ all day………..
harden to me is a modern and improved joe johnson, love iso joe but then rockets harden came onto the scene, harden is the new iso joe, prob the best isolation player and kyrie a close 2nd.
One of the all time greats. Don't let any of these nephews on the net tell you any different.
In the regular season he top 10 all time but in the playoffs where it matters most, he’s THE biggest choker in nba superstar history.
@@Ejp23_??? Embiid is, harden still play good in playoff, people feel bad just because he's too good in regular season.
@@Ejp23_ bros acting like harden wasnt facing the avengers in the conference finals everytime. LeBron has only beat them once out of 4 go arounds. Even the best can barely overcome them casual
he nearly beat prime warriors single handedly?
just say u dont know ball
Watching this remembering the good old days. It’s sad but all good things must come to an end. One of the greatest scorers ever
He could put on a scoring clinic as hardly somebody else.
UNSTOPPABLE
Man as a Houston fan I’m still salty about that playoff loss to the warriors if we had CP3 I think harden would’ve got his chip that year
7:29 prime harden was basketball art 😂 his footwork is very influential in modern basketball
2018 Harden was just unstoppable 🔥🔥🔥
unstoppable? how many rings he got?
@@JaeRocReacts Bro tf rings gotta do with being unstoppable
@@Blue-GCarter03how bout being stopped when it actually matters?😂
@yaboycurtis1103 What, tf do you mean? He violated the whole nba in 2018, in the playoffs he did again, but how they winning when is a one man show, he was giving his all but the team didn't do the job right, you're just a hater
@@yaboycurtis1103 the fact he doesnt comprehend that, is crazy lmaoooo thats like callin a guy a "Hitman" but he only shoots at the gun range
Arguably the greatest ISO score ever
💯💯💯
in the regular season against lesser competition. in the playoffs im taking jamal murray over this choke artist any day.
@@tyresejones3535 ai scored 51 on kobe in the finals he never won one but jamal murray beat an old kyle lowry in the playoffs and didnt score nearly as much. I got Allen Iverson
The greatest iso scorer in NBA history doesn't have the rules to his advantage and certainly doesn't rely on cheap tricks to draw fouls. Harden is also almost a complete liability everywhere on the floor when the ball isn't in his hands. He doesn't give himself any advantage never moving off ball but always needing another quick guard next to him. His teams will always fall short on defense and straight will to win mainly from him and he got overtaken by Booker a while ago. Wilt Chamberlain is the greatest iso scorer of all time followed by MJ
@@tyresejones3535harden averaged 29 ppg in 8 seasons in the playoffs in h-town he has bad games rarely bad playoff series Jamal is great but still not on that level yet but definitely could be with longevity
Prime harden was the best scorer of our generation you just had to be there 😢
Facts
Better than Curry or LeBron? This man spent half his time flopping in strip clubs instead of scoring.
@@notmytruthTHEtruth Curry is a shooter and Lebron is a playmaker/slasher. Obviously an over simplification of their games but scoring a lot of points and being a scorer are much different things. Both Curry and Lebron are elite scorers, but not as elite as prime harden cause of how efficiently and consistently he was able to score with pure isolation basketball. Lebron and curry scored more within the flow of the offense.
Not better than kd you smoking
@@laneyljkwhen did KD average 36ppg in a season. KD is great but i think harden in his prime was Bett
Miss prime harden not gonna lie
He dropped 40 few weeks ago. Shit was insane.
9:19 "I'm Indian, even I don't like Curry" Am I the only one who noticed😂😂
I miss this Harden smh 🤦🏾♂️
I remember these days like it was yesterday. Insane how fast time fly by...
I was never a fan of harden until his rocket days he was such beast! Sucks he doesn’t do this anymore 🙁
Bro was nasty on the Rockets..idk what happened to bruh
@@Blake-ld7mxdeadass even now he’s not as quick as he was when he was in Houston he’s slowed down
@@Polynesian96 once he started skipping practice and came back fat his game ain't been the same
@@Blake-ld7mx he needs to go on a diet and spend 1 mill on his body like Lebron.
Real fans know that this harden was the product of mike d’antoni system essentially having him iso , other coaches don’t like this style so you don’t see him do it as much
Wreaks of SG. That 3 jumper is just too damn smooth
Harden vs the warriors was always a battle. They took his chip away man 😢
Still wouldve had to face the cavs in the finals smh 😂😂
If OKC beat GS that year they couldve beat the Cavs without Klove & Kyrie shi would be different 🔥
Omm I promise you if they would've beaten the warriors. They was defrost beating the Cavs In 6 that year
I literally hated the warriors for years cause they literally ruined prime Harden chances to win a ring for him and Rockets. Especially when they had CP3 on that roster
Not really. Warriors always whooped his ass.
hes gonna do so well on the clippers🔥
Is it confirmed ?
he is? i hate to break it to you.
@@natecosme6505 aged like milk so quick
Oh shit you da 🐐
@@natecosme6505he is now
I used to hate Harden but now I miss these days, Houston Harden was amazing and I miss 2016-2021 NBA
No one saw him becoming this good he was bench player and overnight his a superstar
6moty to mvp is crazy
living legend. wizard with the ball.
So good compilation, greatest player of all time!!!!!
steph and harden really change how the game is played
his prime is another level, after all this i miss those years.
Prime Harden was one of the best iso scorers ever. He changed the way the game was played and started the stepback we see all the time now
ALL-TIME NBA 🏀 GREAT .. FUTURE HALL OF FAMER JAMES HARDEN ..
It was a pleaure to watch him played for HR
Best sg of all time
Over Jordan??😂😂
Dame, Harden, Khris, Giannis, Brook and Bobby Portis will be crazy next season
Harden, Booker, Beal, Durant could be better
And people wonder how he’s so high on the list for most made 3s..he’s step back was quite literally unstoppable .
The ISO-God‼️ 🏀👑🔥
The refs shut him off just like they did iverson. That’s why you see a different harden
I miss this harden everyday😢
I had to come back and see this bro was really the best player in the league 🫡
Prime Harden is one of the greatest scorers ever. People give LeBron a pass for running into the loaded Warriors but not Harden for some reason.
And also Harden made it much much closer and competitive against the Warriors than LeBron did
Prime harden was the best off the dribble contest iso shot maker, at his best when you’re on that island with him he’s cookingn
This is not because of the rules, if the team needs him to score he will. Those haters still said that Harden success because of free throws and disappear in playoffs because they don't watch him play and he almost beat the prime Warriors also average 35 against them
He started declining after suffering a grade 2 hamstring while proceeding to play 53 min on it in game 7 vs the bucks. Age also played an underlying factor too, coupled with injuries. He can still score in bunches and facilitate at an ATG level, though
This was 6 years ago of course he's not the same
His athleticism was key, he cant get those blow by dunks anymore and he cant bounce into his shot as flawlessly anymore. I almost forgot how good he was watching him on the 76ers now. He shows flashes here and there but age is catching up 😢
I think it’s the hamstring injury in 2021 that slowed him down
Bro has travelled more than most explorers 💀
And you're just not knowing your stuff...
funny people who didn't see his prime probably think he trash
They're playing Roblox at that time lol. They don't know the saying "Fear the beard".
One of the best parts about hardens game is that he doesn’t need 2 or 3 screens bro was really unstoppable on the offensive end
travels almost every step back! pain for my eyes
Nice of you to put out this farewell video. Dudes time is UP
Not yet my dawg...
n who r you to decide that?
Your dad's time is up*
@@urbinoganhou5076 who’s gonna give him a shot after all this?
@@davidrufus-giwa3607 not me. The league is deciding it right now. Just you watch
Harden if he didnt struggle in the playoffs we would be talking about him being the GOAT... probably the must unstopabel player in the regular season
Can we get 10 mins of prime harden taking free throws
No need, we already got your highlights 🥲🥲🥲
Would be a goated video for next April fool's
Can we get 10 mins highlights of your NBA highlights ?
@@Khaled-eo9mr "u didn't play in the league so u can't have an opinion on the NBA" 🤓🤓 that takes as boring as watching harden
They couldn’t hold him, that’s why all those free throws
when i was like 4 or 5 i was at my cousins house and they were watching the rockets game with prime james harden in it and that was the first ever player i liked when i heard the name Harden for 3 i was like ooooo he has a nice beard and from that day harden was my favorite but ever sense he got traded to 76ers he just got a bit worse and wasnt as good as his prime but he still on my top 10
Could do w/o the music but good video, man
Harden LOVES cooking Ricky Rubio bro what did he do to u James??
I swear ever since he got rid of his mohawk he ain't been the same 😂dude requesting trades every season his game didn't fall off necessarily but his scoring dropped a bit of course playing next to other stars does that along with age but idk ever since he left Houston he ain't the same harden we knew
lol hes 34 and had a hamstring injury what'd you expect
his game definitely took a noticeable substantial dip his first step is not there anymore. he's still an all star level player just no longer a superstar
if he was a primary scorer on any team right now like he was in rockets i would bet my nutsack he averages 30 ppg
@@shrink8 maybe, but not in an efficient way and not in a winning way, let alone playoff winning way
@@shrink8I agree , but that ham hamstring injury definitely affected his explosiveness.
Good job!!!
Ooo that game 7 at the end 🤕
3:45 BANG!
That sham and cheese sandwich with the dish off to Joe Johnson at 8:27 was nasty work 🥪🤮
Bro gonna have one of the weirdest legacies
Fr the third most domain sg to not win a ring is crazy
🐐’ed
This man went head to head with the Warriors' big 4 juggernaut and nearly came out on top. Harden was far and away the best player on the floor in every matchup they had.
And they have a guts to say "Harden is not the best iso player" 😂
Best prime ever
It don't matter what anybody says the streets will never forget 2017-2018 James Harden🤴🤴🤴 forget the haters
No one younger than me will ever understand what it was like watching James harden in 2017-2020 challenging the warriors and came the closest out of anyone ever to beat them.
bro was cooking with gas
Harden still elite ball ✋ handles and could shoot outside and drive inside
the 4points man❤❤❤
he’s the 3rd greatest SG all time and was robbed of two mvps
agree that the fact thats why giannis hate him so much because harden is to much elite player
3:29 Pack your bags😂😂😂😂😂😂, still one of the all time greats though
Welcome to the clippers 👀
gonna show my kids this video and how i got to witness the second greatest scorer since MJ
Truly he is the system haha
They keep falling for the same 2 moves but he releases that ball quickly he doesn't need alot of time
Only superstar to almost beat the Durant Curry warriors
JAMES HARDEN THE FLAMETHROWER
Even if you don't have a championship 🏆 you are a Basketball monument
top 5 entertaining eras
He’s deceptively quick with his release
9:20 yer mans placard 😂
Pleassssssssseeee bring this harden back man. One season. Pleasssee
Miss this fr💔
The good ol days Westbrook with OKC as well
James was so coooooold
Can we get 10 minutes of Jeff green or Andre iguodala posters?💯
You know how good he was when he balled like that and partied with the kardashians after games 😂😂
Oh james harden how i love you
Everyone likes to talk about how curry changed the game
You could not play a pick up game of ball 2015-18 without someone taking a stepback 3 or euro stepping
Prime harden is something else
It’s like he was playing full court 1v1s
had to check if i had my video sped up. nope, harden was just that fast
Fouls and free throws are a part of basketball.
CLIPPER NATION BABY!
They always sayin "step back" but he is actually" steppin to the side"
Not my boy Rubio getting cooked in these clips 😭😭😭
Slim harden was one of the greatest iso scorers ever
Houston harden is one of the greatest scorers of all time. 🐐
The Heat jersey would suit him right
If the rockets don’t miss 27 threes in a row in that game 7, James Harden gets a ring and is your 2018 finals MVP
offensive talent: top 10
Couldn’t play d but still unstoppable 🔥🔥
Offensive Machine
My second favorite player I’m delusional I still got faith my dawg can win a ring
you're right you are delusional.
Me too.. he still my favorite player in the league but ingl; he make it hard to root for him the last few years 🥲
Still a good player in his twilight years
They failed to figure out how to defend him that year so what happened was they tried to guard him at the back. Anyone remember rubio guarding him?
influential dude
Truly a generational scorer. A once in a lifetime shooter/dribbler/playmaker. This man had literally the full package offensively. If it wasn’t for Injury’s and literally playing against the most stacked teams in nba history he probably would’ve at least had 3 championships under his belt and be in the GOAT CONVO. I’m talking harden over MJ all day………..
This guy is bad ass one of my favorite players I've ever seen I hope he gets his game together cause lately he has t looked so good but he is bad ass
He was an automatic bucket, his defense sucked and he wasnt a ring material player but i enjoyed watching him as a Rockets fan.
He was a ring material CP injury and Scott Foster are the only reasons he’s not a champion
harden to me is a modern and improved joe johnson, love iso joe but then rockets harden came onto the scene, harden is the new iso joe, prob the best isolation player and kyrie a close 2nd.
Imagine if somebody made a good batch of chicken nuggets and then just started screaming 😂😂
You made a basket. Good job bro
very interesting he either shoots a 3 or drives in. Basically making the mid range game obsolete