After leading the league in assists in the 2016-17 season and then leading the NBA in scoring and winning the MVP the season after, it has become quite obvious that James Harden is the league’s best shooting guard.
One can also argue that he is the league’s best player.
Hoops Habit, a network site of FanSided that covers the NBA, recently ranked basketball’s top 30 shooting guards. As Gerald Bourguet explains, Harden was an easy choice at No. 1.
“Defensive flaws be damned; even if you believe James Harden only plays one end of the floor, he plays it so excellently that he’s still the best shooting guard in the NBA by a wide margin.