His team unable to deliver a knockdown punch in Game 3 and again for the first 24 minutes of Monday’s Game 4 at Target Center, Houston superstar James Harden delivered a statement in a 119-100 victory on his way to likely collecting the NBA’s regular-season MVP award this summer.
Enough’s enough.
Harden sent the Rockets home to Houston leading this best-of-seven series 3-1 after a stunning third-quarter blitz that approached the historical.
Leading by just one point at halftime, the Rockets scored 50 points in that third quarter alone, one shy of the NBA’s all-time playoff record for a quarter.