Blessed be the ball for having integrity (and for ending up in the hands of someone who is churning out 40+ point performances like they are regularly scheduled programming, I suppose), for had it lied we'd only be talking about jamming an entire NBA officiating crew into a confessional booth to absolve them of their sins against the sport of basketball. James Harden fighting through a double team and squinting through the gleam off Draymond Green's teeth to drive a dagger into the team that watched his own miss 27 straight 3's en route to the demise of their dream season a little over 7 months ago was pretty awesome. Not having to solely discuss Warriors-related conspiracy theories after Kevin Durant set up a go-ahead bucket by somehow legally saving a ball while having his feet planted in Lot Z of the Oracle Arena parking lot is even more awesome. Due to how often they even themselves out, I hate focusing on individual missed calls, and that's especially true when it goes against the guy who is so notorious for playing the officials like a fiddle that if they had a mouthpiece it would be worn through. Unfortunately, if that game had ended after Kevin Durant tightroped the shoulder of the nearest freeway while using the entirety of his mutant wingspan to smack back in a loose ball that that was inches from the sideline then I'd have no choice but to whine incessantly about the most egregious non-whistle in NBA history. Therefore, thanks are in order for James Harden. It would have been nice if he had one of those bullets in the chamber last postseason when the Rockets were helping the broad side of the barn breath easy in Game 7, but - at least for one night - he made it so that the team that needs absolutely no help didn't feel as though they got plenty of it. Never mind justice, because it's undoubtedly a lot more fun to laugh at NBA executives referencing topically terrible (or terribly typical?) NetFlix films than listening to them bitch about the shitty supervision of their product... — Daryl Morey (@dmorey) January 4, 2019
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