African Sports Monthly Vol I. Issue II February 2018 | Page 54

progressed, the obvious leading candidate in James Harden emerged.

James Harden has not only led his Houston Rockets to be the only team that sports analysts and basketball watchers around the world are considering to be the one that would dethrone the Golden State Warriors in the West but win it all come June 2018. Harden, who is now assisted in the back court by perennial All-Star Point Guard Chris Paul made the ultimate case of why he should be this years NBA regular season MVP when he set the league record of being the only player to ever score 60 points in a game couple with a Triple Double stats which he did against the Orlando Magic.

On the opposite side of the positive spectrum of good news and performances in the NBA has been the drop in performance and negative news and about the Cleveland Cavaliers, who almost fell of the rails save for a major blockbuster trade of players who had outlived their usefulness on the Cavalier Roster.

Considered to be the leading team in the Eastern Conference the Cavaliers almost imploded with a series of bad performances and ugly team chemistry in the early

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