James Harden enters the Garden on Wednesday ready to break the scoreboard against a listless Knicks defense.
Harden has scored 200 points his past four games — the first player do to so since Kobe Bryant in March 2007. Harden’s 35.7 scoring average is the league’s best since Michael Jordan’s 37.1 in 1986-87.
And now the Knicks, the NBA’s second-worst defensive team, has to try to figure out a way to limit the Rockets superstar guard.
“What I’ve enjoyed watching him over his career is he’s taken a lot of scrutiny,” Fizdale said after Tuesday’s practice.