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James Harden American Basketball Point Guard

Harden attended Artesia High School in Lakewood, California. In his second year, he averaged 13.2 points while Artesia went 28–5. James Edward Harden Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is considered one of the greatest scorers and shooting guards in NBA history. In 2021, Harden was honored by being named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team as one of the league’s top 75 players.

Harden played college basketball for the Arizona State Sun Devils, where he was named a consensus All-American and Pac-10 Player of the Year in 2009. Harden was selected by the Oklahoma City Thunder with the third overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft. In 2012, he was named NBA Sixth Man of the Year and helped Oklahoma City reach the NBA Finals, where they lost to the Miami Heat in five games.

After the Thunder refused to give him a maximum contract extension, Harden was unwilling to take a pay cut and was subsequently traded to the Houston Rockets before the 2012–13 season. After requesting a trade at the beginning of the 2020–21 season, Harden was traded to the Brooklyn Nets as part of a four-team trade. With Brooklyn, he was named to his ninth and tenth consecutive All-Star Games before being traded to the Philadelphia 76ers at the 2022 trade deadline.

In 2023, Harden led the league in assists for the second time in his career. Harden is also a two-time member of the United States national team, winning gold medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2014 FIBA ​​World Cup. On November 2, 2024, Harden recorded his 78th career triple-double, tied for seventh in NBA history with Wilt Chamberlain, as he had 25 points, and 10 rebounds in a 125–119 loss against the Phoenix Suns. and had 13 assists. Ended with.