James Harden Drops a CAREER-HIGH 61 Points In New York | January 23, 2019
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- James Harden finished with a career-high 61 points (17-38 FG) and 15 rebounds as the Rockets defeated the Knicks 114-110 tonight at Madison Square Garden. Harden tied Kobe Bryant (61 points on 2/2/2009) for the 2nd-highest scoring total at the current iteration of MSG and the 5th-highest point total by an opposing player at any iteration of MSG.
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I can't believe 2019 was 5 years ago...I remember this like it was yesterday.
Man it’s hard to believe 5 years ago he was averaging 36.1 ppg and now he’s the 3rd option on a team. At the time, it felt like he was averaging 35 ppg every season and dropping 40 every other game, it really did. Crazy how fast 5 years goes but it’s also crazy how slow 5 years goes at the same time
@@llg34sllI think he injured his hamstring the year after this…took away his explosiveness🫤
@@Vortex_Feedzyup, it's true. He had been playing injured in Brooklyn.
Nah fr time is fooking flying
This man is a real life game of 2k
He traveled on a couple of those
Yeah I see it now that u mention it bruh
Sonny Deez lol why you havin a conversation with yoself? forgot to switch to that burner 🤔😂
Chur Bo damn, yeah. No wonder I don’t have more likes
Yeah, with the sliders set to 100 for fouls and traveling turned off
Before y'all start saying he took 38 shots...MJ took 37 in a 60+ point performance. Lebron took 33 in a 63 point performance. Kobe took 50 just to drop 60(his final game but still stands. Oh, and MJ took 23 free throws in said performance. Harden is on a scoring run like we have never seen...Respect Greatness!
Oh and harden took 25 free throws in this performance
61 points on 38 shots is still very good
Jacob Hickman who asked? No one so stfu
@@TheWesleykid go ahead and point me to where he shouldn't have shot free throws. Ill wait.
Jacob Hickman we have seen scoring like this before actually. *COUGH* 2006 Kobe *COUGH*
It was my first NBA game when i traveled to New York. Couldn't have been better. What a show from Harden.
MVP Award would be well deserved this year.
That's all he can achieve....he will never get a ring
@@ninetyrraven9529 He's achieved more and made more money than you would see in 10 lifetimes
@@ninetyrraven9529 you can say that all you want but iverson was an all time great and won nothing so was john stockton your just a straight hater
@@neverless.1 none of them have rings....you proved my point.
@@ninetyrraven9529 your ignorance pisses me off, I hope your mothers brakes dont work tomorrow
He was really unstoppable at this time
It was an honor to watch. That hamstring injury cut the prime short unfortunately. Hope he can still do work this season though
Yeah me too rough start in LA though@@carnage3208
One of the best scoring stretches by any player ever
@@Sterlingx11 hands down
@@Sterlingx11I think this year or the year before , he broke the record for most consecutive 30 point games… which was Kobe’s
I'm pretty sure he will score 70+ pts in a game by the end of the season. (Unless Scottie Pippen teaches the below average teams how to guard him better.)
Pippen did make some good points.
I don't understand why teams continue to play him on his right side leaving his left hand open for a drive? Are they more worried about the step back 3 right than the left hand drive?
Comment how bus better Steph curry or James Harden on E purple
I understand that 61 points is a great achievement, but come on this is ridiculous, nobody wants to touch him even a little, because he gets calls for every. single. touch. smh
I don't think the Pippen thing will even matter. People "claim" the 76ers shut him down with Pippen's suggestions, but he scored 37 in about 3 quarters. Had the game not been out of hand and he actually played the 4th, he would have scored 40 plus. The dude is unstoppable right now.
Lol 37 in 3 quarters using Pipen defensive plan
This what we need in the playoffs this year
And he was MIA when they needed him most 🤦🏻♂️
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@zackjohnson4176 every superstar is Mia when it’s playoff time only one team can win I don’t see y’all talk about Paul’s George cp3 jimmy and other like y’all do to harden
😂😂😂😂😂😂
And look how ut turned out 😂
The fact that this man has multiple 40 plus point highlights is fucking insane Houston James was without a doubt a damn problem.. bruh what a time! 🔥🔥🔥
This is me in rookie mode in mycareer smh
I dont get 61 even like that 😅
Y’all trash then
> he only gets 60+ in rookie mode
tf, 60+ is easy on any difficulty
He puts a lot of time into his game, and that should never be overlooked.
By faking like he's being hacked when he loses the ball driving through the lane.
Ok I give up.. he's MVP despite the multitude of free throws..
And taking 30+ shots a game
Play at .25 speed his euro steps are 3 and even caught a 4step no call travel but he got layup AND 1.
Great job nba having betting now smh.
@@thunder3784 your point being? Kobe averaged 27.4 shots and 10 FT a game during the 06-07 season. During his 4-game 50+ game streak, he averaged 35 shots and 15 FT a game. In the past 5 games, Harden has averaged 52.2 points a game on 32 shots and 17.8 FT a game. Funny how similar the numbers are but how different the reactions have been lol
Ty Spy that’s not a travel
@@vanchark what's funny is I hated Kobe at the pinnacle of his career but learn to respect his gameplay... I don't like harden even more nor his game but I guess I can give him credit..
Oh my God watch when he keeps this up and averages 40
cla clash next year my friend he’ll bring it to a whole another level like he did this year tbh I thought he was in his prime when he won mvp but this nigga was like fuck that and proceeds to dominate and average fucking my career numbers in this modern nba era
@@arsenai4935 Keep dreaming
Oml...ain't nobody stopping this guy...straight up balling🔥🏀🏀
I miss this James Harden😔
This man has 2k sliders on 100 everything 💯🔥
LLanden Custard draw foul too
Except defense..
what? he is 5/20 in the 3 point line 100 on everything LOL
@@MichaelKing015 ayyee u right
@@M.Westen haha true
This guy is a living beast. Scariest thing is i'm not even surprised at his 61 now. Respect.
i miss this dude play like this..i hope he still can.
He let himself go when he destroyed his trademark look
Hamstring injury hampered his speed
To busy hanging out with the rappers….
Here after luka dropped 60 points 20 rebounds and 10 assists
one of the greatest to ever do it 🔥
Harden back to back MVP💯💯
Back it's a rap
@@Ravichang there are 40 seasons in league history where a player shot more ftas/g than Hardens career season high ftas/g. there are 271 seasons where a player shot more fta/g than Hardens career average.
More floppy than a disk.
REAL MVP
@@Ravichang Reading comprehension, get it. I never said the nba has been around for 271 years. I said that 271 times, a player has shot more ftas than Hardens average.
The truth is free, you should look into it.
Vintage James Harden is different
Damn he already vintage😂
The Knicks put up a great fight tonight.
But they're still the Knicks.
Fizdale with the clutch technical.
they're tanking.
We played a great defensive game
Kept the rockets to 25% from three
Finished the game strong
And saved the tank at the end
A real knicks fan would be 100% happy with this outcome
@@AndreNdoye You’re the only good that came out of the Knicks ever had, pathetic
@@AndreNdoye But then again, y’all suck, even with all that effort wasted
best 1 on 1 player ive ever seen
Madison Harden💯😭😂
Madison Square Harden
🤣🤣
Madison Square-beard Harden
Houston James harden was different he was going off scoring he had 40 points Games 60 led league in free throws two years straight
Man, once you let this man dribble with rythm past halfcourt, it's all over, it's just gotten to that point in James' career where in-game, that dribble move creep to the 3-point line is just about automatic when he gets hot from 3 point range.
What a very high score for Harden.
04-04-19.
James harden:*fails to break Melos record at the garden*
Melo, u can break my career
But u can’t break my record
And he can break his heart
What was Melo’s record ??
@@jamescarter2013 63 I think
He still got a career high. Melo got about 7 years to get a career high 62 pts. His team was New York. I guarantee u. Put Harden in NY instead of Melo. 70 like Booker. ez
@bcmoore1995 you do realize Melo got traded to the Bulls, right?
45% Shooting Too ... Played Defense .. 15 Rebounds not bad
We must never forget that sometime in his career Rocket James Harden had been a different breed.
People would still be hating on harden if he missed all of his free throws (Shaq and dwight attempted just as many if not more). Free throws are a part of what makes an elite scorer.
He doesn't get fouled. He sells fouls.
That moment you realise that he was serious about winning the mvp again😱😱😱
Only Bron could stop it but not anymore.
3:15 is this real life? James just stole the ball lol
Honestly the most impressive thing about this game is his steals
yall cant tell me he's not helping his team offensively and helping out on defense.
@Jaime Gonzalez What are you smoking on that was back in 2015 you idiot
cla clash he literally is the only offence
@@lifesfailure939 Do you want me to tell you that his team now has no clutch? His whole team this season sold him. Missing game winners when they dont pass it to Harden. Harden tries to win games and he gives up fast break points when people are ahead of him. He's a team player, he improved his defense despite that play vs Derozan in 2018 Spurs vs Rockets. What Im trying to say is that if Harden's hot, they give him the ball and he drops points to help win the game. Agree or Disagree who cares
cla clash case in point he is the only offence, you just enforced my point, besides all harden does is stand around until he gets the ball and shoots for a 3
Harden is fool's gold
drop a 50 on that bih like old Harden!
i get so high, i hide it from the camera so smart!
This harden was crazy
Always loved Harden no matter what
Back in the day that Step back three of Harden better than Luka.
Double Harden and leave anyone else wide open and they’ll miss anyways 😂😂😂😂
Ai got the same treatment damn near his entire career lmfaooo and he still killed everyone
TheCrower77 even if they double harden rockets are a team with many shooters so the results will still be the same
I like how his 60th and 61th point was a game winner
61 pts 15 rebs 4 asts 5 stls with NO HELP!!!
MVP😀😀😀
Getting ready for the free throw contest @AllStarWeekend...
Top 4 SG ever
This Knicks team was terrible I can’t believe they were keeping up
Pippen was correct to state the best way to guard him is to shade his left shoulder and basically chase him from behind. Harden almost always goes left!
Am I the only one who thinks James Harden needs to watch his old videos so he can get an idea what to do in certain moments and also get more motivated? I am sure he's enough motivated and knows exactly what he's doing but still I think it will be a great benefit to watch some nice plays from previous games.
James Edward Harden we had some good years here in H-town brother…. We you the best and thanks for the memories 🤘🏽🚀
Who’s watching this in 2023
F u
2024
im just pointing this out, it's crazy that harden's mid range game is nonexistent and nobody talks about it
Revisiting for the reminder of how great Harden was/is
@Stretch Gang Nation gained too much weight
They couldn’t Do a longer highlight video only 3 mins cause more than a third of his points was from the FT line
Shut up you are just triggered
James Harden's gonna have a 70+ game by the end of the year, no doubt
Only 3 years later and can barley score 20
he did this on the regular mind you
Him, Russ and KD used to be on the same team.
...crazy, right?
Harden The Machine
He started the game in literally the best possible way....///GOATlike
James Harden ties Kobe Bryant's Record also 61 points
Some of plays should not be called foul, but Harden’s dominance is beyond all doubt.
Stop hating. Just enjoy it. No matter what team you root for. MVP. James Harden.
I miss that james harden💔
This man will be different with a real big man
extra step is so crucial, wish we could do that shit... it's like adding 33.3% more options to your game!
MVP, NO DOUBT ANYMORE... Just wait for the award.
He’s getting MVP I don’t want to hear anything from the haters
That's all he's getting. He will never possess a championship. I don't want to hear nothing from the 'lovers'
Mvp and one of the best offensive players of all time🔥
I didn't know today was opposite day
UltraIsHere He most definitely is one of the best offensive players of all time. Not that many players who have done what he’s done.
@@HowOddCZcams No players have done what hes done. Hes on pace to break the pts per 100 record from Wilt and break his own record for pts created in a season
yes yes with the refs
*during the regular season
Imagine harden kd and westbrook are on the same team, they are all monsters in the past but now KD is the only one left.
*James harden falls*, *police come onto court and straight up arrests the defender*
Lmao 😂
Refs eject defender..
u haters are a joke
I watch this every night
James Harden is really good and talented but he gets mad really fast if he wouldn't get mad he would be one of the best
This streak is going to be more than going in the history books. Definitely gonna be some type of ESPN 30 for 30 on it, maybe a movie special...perhaps a written piece in how the beard dropped 61/15, 61 like he Kobe back in 2009...10 YEARS AGO! #MVB 🧔🏾🏀
They're going to do the exact same thing to Harden as they're doing to Wilt. They're going to notice his flopping and unfair free throws because officiating will probably be done by robots in the future, stopping these unfair calls in harden's favor.
James Harden got crazy handles!
2:30 nice travelling Harden. Keep up!
March 6, 2000 Shaqs 61 points
January 23, 2019 James Harden 61 Points
New york always ending up on the wrong side of a memorable moment.
James Harden is here to put on another show!
Just respect him..Hardwork pays off.
Why my Knicks always let a star player score so many points on us it just sad man😞😳
That's fine, we'll have our Stars do the same in 2047 🙃
@@jayfrmbrklyn4543 😂😂
It's kind of not fair for the Knicks cause players won't to play their best in the Garden anyways.
michael thompson if porzingis is playing that’s an automatic 20-25 more points and the rockets don’t even sniff this win. Plus that pathetic bail out foul when harden got double teamed with 20 seconds left was pathetic.
I was literally in the garden for this performance
He showing us that he’s the TRUTH. No disrespect to Paul Pierce. He wants that MVP.
When you turn rookie mode on 2K 💀🤣
Looking at these comments make me sad. People are blown away by 61 points that were free throws, layups and some 3 pointers. And to see that people say "Oh he is the best of all time" or "he is better thank Koby" just blows my mind. Harden is practically the same height as Jordan but can barely dunk. Bryant scored 60 points at 39 years old (harden is 29!). People forget the legends very fast as apparently...
He is underrated.
James Harden is differnt 💯
22 points from 25 free throws.
And Y'all talking about him being a real life 2K character?
He must be the most boring character of all time.
Offensive juggernaut... hands down top 3 offensive player of all time
All the people that say he travels, never played a day in the NBA, but lets just say he allegedly travels and takes 3 extra steps. The defender has no excuse he can take just as much steps and more. So it doesnt matter if he steps back to the parking lot. If the defender is guarding him, guard him from the parking lot!!
I can tell you now that harden is not a *human*
Miss you Harden 🤘🏼😞
MVP 🐐
this is why hes my favorite player
I've been thinking about this for a while but I think there is a chance he'll score 70 or more in a game, especially if he has a really hot shooting game.
James dominating with his Harden signature shoes thats my man
@1:44 sick move
I miss Houston Harden😕
Harden in the garden = Madison Square Harden
All the greats of off in the garden. 61pts & 15re’s 🚀🏀
M V P for the NBA Regular Season
And
M V P for the NBA Finals ( Houston Rockets NBA champions vs Raptors or Philly or Celtics )
This shouldve been hardens 4th consecutive mvp if he wasnt robbed of steph and westbrook lol
He was waaaayy better those 2 years than those 2 snubs
Real champions win get the ring. MVP is nothing
@@ninetyrraven9529 when your team is trash and you carry your team to the top 5 in west.. you are in my eyes a superstar. most teams, if not all who won the championship had good teams.. bro harden's 2nd best player is cp3 who is more injured than active and when he's healthy he aint even a top 15 pg in the league lmao..
+Savage cp3 is fool's gold also. The whole franchise is fool's gold
Just going to throw these facts out here. The peoplezz can argue below if they wish.
Harden's Stats Tonight
MIN 40
FG 17-38
3PT 5-20
FT 22-25 (that's a hefty amount lol)
REB 15
AST 3
STL 5
TO 5
+/- +19 (kinda useless stat tbh)
Overall, not bad.