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Mythbusting the #PlayoffHarden fallacy about Rockets star

After a Game 4 playoff win in Minnesota last round, Rockets coach Mike D'Antoni had a James Harden-centric message for the media: "He was pretty good. Some you might want to check your tweets at the halftime."

In that game, Harden had a slow first half only to unleash a franchise playoff-record 22 points in the third quarter on his way to a 36-point performance.

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D'Antoni was joking with the media about some of their Harden tweets, but he might as well have been talking to all of NBA Twitter, which collectively had to trash their #PlayoffHarden tweets after that third quarter outburst.