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The Rockets' Twitter Will Let Giannis Finish, But Not Before Reminding Everyone Who Might Have Forgetten That James Harden Scored A Lot This Season

6/25/2019

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Congrats to the new MVP, but we respectfully disagree.

□ @JHarden13 ⤵️

✔️ Finished Top 2 in MVP voting 4 out of the last 5 seasons

✔ 1st player in NBA history to avg at least 35.0ppg & 7.0apg in a single season

✔ Scored 40+ pts 28 times this season, 50+ 9 times & 60+ twice pic.twitter.com/UMmHARlNxg

— Houston Rockets (@HoustonRockets) June 25, 2019

✔ 32 consecutive games scoring at least 30pts, 2nd-longest in league history.

✔ Over a span of 40 games played Harden avg 40.1 ppg, 7.1 apg, 7.0 rpg and 2.2 spg. That was the 2nd-longest span of averaging 40+ pts in NBA history!

— Houston Rockets (@HoustonRockets) June 25, 2019

✔ Surpassed his career high for 3-pointers made in his 53rd game of the season finishing with 378, 2nd-highest single season total in NBA history. ?

✔ Dating back to 2014-15, Harden is avg 30.4 pts, 8.4 ast, 6.4 reb, and 1.8 steals.

— Houston Rockets (@HoustonRockets) June 25, 2019

I got to be honest. I don't really have a problem with the Rockets having a pre-drafted list of James Harden's personal accomplishments, that could have been summoned up with something as simple as "did you know he scores...like...a lot?" ready if their superstar (who didn't even bother showing up last night, mind you) missed out on winning a 2nd straight MVP Award. Team-run Twitter accounts are meant to pander to the most fanatical of followers, so being shamelessly biased and insecurely defensive about the one-man team it's devoted to, even if comes off as giving the most egregious "well, actually..." to Giannis' historic season, is kind of fitting of its job description. 

Now, to post it while the actual MVP, who is universally beloved enough to make James Harden look like Judas by comparison, was on the verge of leaking all over himself in talking about what his dearly departed father and the rest of his family meant to what has been a selfless and meteoric rise to superstardom? 

Giannis got emotional as he paid tribute to his family while accepting the #KiaMVP trophy. □#NBAAwards pic.twitter.com/T8p5XH73cZ

— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) June 25, 2019

Needless to say, I've certainly seen better looks. Again, I get why it was posted, but when it was posted is a different story. Maybe, just maybe let the ultimate overseas success story give what was almost guaranteed to be a heartwarming speech and have his well-deserved moment in the spotlight. After all, doing the social media equivalent of screaming "what about us?" like 'us' wasn't last seen melting under the spotlight as their former MVP once again went MIA in another massively passive postseason moment was, ironically enough, bound to flop in embarrassing fashion when introduced to an always unforgiving internet.

“I was looking for James Harden but in classic playoff fashion he didn’t show up.”

Hasan Minhaj #NBAawards □

(Via @cjzero)

pic.twitter.com/qtIR9UmkFh

— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) June 25, 2019
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