James Harden dropped 31 points against the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday night, which means the reigning MVP has now scored 30 or more points against every NBA team this season.
The Houston Rockets superstar becomes the first player since the league expanded to 30 teams in 2004 to score 30 points or more against all 29 opponents in a single season.
This graphic from NBA’s Twitter account (RocketsWire posted a similar one earlier Tuesday) is now up-to-date with the new points scored against Atlanta — but is still wrong about Miami. Harden dropped 58 on the Heat in February.
Harden finished Tuesday’s game, a 121-105 Rockets win, with 31 points, (including four-of-11 shooting from three-point range), 10 assists and eight rebounds. Almost a triple double!
Harden is trying to become the first player since Michael Jordan in 1988-89 to average at least 30 points, seven assists, six rebounds and two steals. He’s currently averaging 35.9 points, 7.6 asissts, 6.4 rebounds and 2.2 steals per game.
The Rockets have won 12 of 13 and have 10 wins in their last 13 road games. They have 11 games left and are sitting in 3rd place in the Western Conference, and are three games behind Denver for the two seed. The Nuggets are on their own win streak of four games.
