He took the ball in his hands in the final seconds of overtime, across from the reigning league champions who had a two-point lead. Draymon Green and Klay Thomson jumped to try to block him, and he still managed to knock the shot out of the three-point line, and in the fall the popdode for the victory for Houston.
This is a short recapitulation of the final seconds of the NBA West derby in which the Houston Rockets beat the Golden State Warriors 135:134 in Oakland. The hero of the victory and the scorer of the winning basket is last year's league MVP James Harden.
The popular "Brada" continued a series of fantastic games with a new triple double performance of 44 points, 15 assists and 10 rebounds. It's his second triple-double this week.
Even more impressive is the fact that this is Harden's fifth consecutive game in which he scored 40 points.
In the last 50 seasons, only Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson can boast of such a performance.
"I gave in to my feeling. I took shots, dribbled, did step backs, and it paid off," said Harden.
Kevin Durant tried with a long shot to give GSW the win, but he couldn't do it.
The match could have gone in the wrong direction, after an incredible refereeing error, in which they did not play an out for Houston, although it is clear that Durant was out of bounds with his whole body when he tried to save one ball, after which Steph Curry gave a basket for leadership.
Many fans of the NBA declared this failure to be the biggest in the current season.
Harden had the help of the fantastic Clint Capela, who, in addition to 29 points, dominated the racket and collected 21 rebounds.
At Golden State, Curry finished the match with 35 points, Durant and Thomson scored 26 points each.
The Warriors had an even harder time, as they had a 20-point lead at the beginning of the third quarter.
"Simply, this kind of scoring instinct is hard to defend. He does that, you know, hits those tough shots," Warriors coach Steve Kerr said.
In the remaining matches, the Denver Nuggets defeated the Sacramento Kings 117:113, with another phenomenal game by Nikola Jokić who had 26 points, 13 rebounds and 6 assists, while the San Antonio Spurs defeated the Toronto Raptors 125:107.
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