Even after their Game 7 win against the Oklahoma City Thunder, James Harden has shot just 39.2% from the field in four career Game 7's while averaging 24.2 points, lower than his career scoring average.

Harden has had some awful playoff moments in his career. He was blocked by Manu Ginobili on a last-second shot in Game 5 of the Rockets series' against the San Antonio Spurs in 2017. He made just 2-of-11 shot attempts in a series ending Game 5 loss against the Golden State Warriors in the 2015 Western Conference Finals. He scored 32 points in the Rockets' Game 7 loss to the Warriors in the Western Conference Finals in 2018, but he shot just 2-of-13 from three and the Rockets missed 27 straight treys as a team.

However, after this block on Lu Dort’s potential game-winning shot in Game 7 against the Thunder, all of that may have been erased.

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On the Locked On Rockets Podcast, host Jackson Gatlin explained how that single block may have erased all of James Harden’s past playoff failures.

Jackson Gatlin: That block by James Harden… that that was his playoff moment. It happened. That block has erased… I don't ever want to see the picture of the Manu Ginobili's block on James Harden ever again. Because that block replaces that moment.

That block was so clutch on a night where he just did not have it offensively. The man was 4-of-15 shooting from the floor, could not buy a three-pointer, and then on the other end Lu Dort, who was OKC’s MVP, posted 30 points on 6-of-12 shooting from behind the arc. It was like James Harden and Lu Dort Freaky Friday’d or something. You know, they're hanging out at the Grand Floridian and they just so happened to brush shoulders, and then bam, suddenly James Harden can't shoot the ball anymore and Lu Dort becomes prime Ray Allen.

That block was everything and then some. I need the photo of that ball block put in every museum here in Houston. From here until the end of the Rockets' playoff run. That was inspired basketball by James Harden making a play to to help seal the game.