Houston Rockets star shooting guard James Harden has had a strange season, with the former MVP sometimes looking like a scoring dynamo and other times shooting his team out of games.
Harden has six games with 16 missed 3-pointers in the past calendar year for the Rockets. The only other player to miss 16 triples in a game is retired point guard Damon Stoudamire, who accomplished the unwanted feat in April 2005 when he played for the Portland Trail Blazers, according to StatMuse on Twitter.
Most 3-point misses in a game:
16 — James Harden (tonight)
16 — James Harden (Jan 8 2020)
16 — James Harden (Dec 2019)
16 — James Harden (Oct 2019)
16 — James Harden (Mar 2019)
16 — James Harden (Jan 2019)
16 — Damon Stoudamire (Apr 2005) pic.twitter.com/GWEcXKkWhD— StatMuse (@statmuse) January 21, 2020
Harden is currently leading the NBA in scoring for the third consecutive season with 36.9 points per game. The only people to average more points a contest in a single season are Hall of Famers Michael Jordan (1986-87) and Wilt Chamberlain (four times).
Earlier in the 2019-20 season, the Rockets superstar was averaging a tick more than Jordan, making his scoring output this year at a historic pace. He's also chipping in 6.3 rebounds and 7.4 rebounds a game in a league-high 37.3 minutes.
Harden has an above-30 Player Efficiency Rating, per Basketball-Reference, and a 62.1 True Shooting Percentage — two elite metrics rating the former Sixth Man of the Year as cream of the crop in production and efficient shooting.
It's the first season in Houston's gambit to pair James Harden back with ex–Oklahoma City Thunder teammate Russell Westbrook.
So far, the Rockets are sixth in the Western Conference at the moment. However, whispers have predicted Westbrook could already be gone and deal by the league's trade deadline on Feb 6.
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