During the night from Saturday to Sunday, the current Los Angeles Clippers player entered the Top 10 of NBA scorers. If the franchise is having a particularly difficult start to the season, the leader seems in great shape.
James Harden entered the Top 10 best scorers in NBA history on Saturday by overtaking Carmelo Anthony. Author of 34 points against Minnesota last night, the leader of the Los Angeles Clippers joins LeBron James and Kevin Durant among the players still active in this restricted circle.
17th season already
James Harden and his famous beard joined the Top 10 best scorers of all time in the NBA on Saturday, a prestigious club from which he ejects Carmelo Anthony. Harden (36) needed 20 points to take 10th place at 28,289 points.
After scoring 19 points before the break, he passed Anthony 4 minutes from the end of the 3rd quarter, finishing in total with 34 points and 6 assists. Only three active players are part of the Top 10: Harden with 28,303 points but also Kevin Durant (Houston), 8th with 31,051 points and the record holder LeBron James, who peaks at 42,268 points at almost 41 years old, after overtaking Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387 points) at the start of 2023.
Harden, in his 17th season, had been the NBA’s leading scorer three seasons in a row (from 2017-2018 to 2019-2020). He holds the single-game points records for the Clippers (55 on November 22 in Charlotte) and the Houston Rockets (61 points in 2019).
The Clippers in difficulty
The leader, never crowned, however fails to prevent the catastrophic start to the season for the Clippers, who are languishing at the bottom of the table in the West (14th), after another defeat on the floor of the Minnesota Timberwolves (109-106).
