Los Angeles Clippers star James Harden hit one other milestone in his profession on Thursday evening when he reached 25,000 profession factors throughout Los Angeles’ 121-113 win over the Golden State Warriors. Harden is the third energetic participant to hitch the 25K membership and the twenty fourth participant all-time. He stays twenty fourth on the all-time scoring listing.
“A win [is what matters],” Harden said. “Successful is the important thing. The stats and all the pieces, I’ve completed a number of various things, completed a number of completely different particular person stats. For me it is about successful, constructing chemistry, and persevering with to get higher as a unit. I believe tonight was one other step ahead for us.”
In the midst of the third quarter, Harden was controlling on the high of the important thing and waited for a display from Ivica Zubac. Although not precisely the best choose of all time, it gave Harden simply sufficient of a step to get downhill and into the paint, the place he side-stepped round Dario Saric for a bucket.
Harden completed the evening with 28 factors, seven rebounds and 15 assists in one other spectacular displaying since becoming a member of the Clippers. After a sluggish begin to the Harden period, the new-look Clippers have received six in a row and 11 of their final 14 to climb into seventh place within the Western Convention.
Getting into Thursday, Harden was already alone in twenty fourth on the all-time scoring listing, however he will not be there lengthy. He is now 184 factors behind Jerry West in twenty third and 271 factors again of Reggie Miller in twenty second. His scoring has been a bit inconsistent on this Clippers set-up, besides, he ought to surpass each of these gamers within the subsequent 15 to twenty video games. Wanting additional up the listing, Kevin Garnett in nineteenth might be as excessive as he may get this season; he wants one other 1,063 factors to get there.
Along with his scoring accolades, Harden is among the finest playmakers of his era, and he has now joined LeBron James and Oscar Robertson as the one gamers with at the least 25,000 factors, 5,000 rebounds and seven,000 assists.
