Unguardable | The Story Behind James Harden 

They should've called this "Stepback" because that's Harden's signature move and your taking a step back in time for the story.

This is the best video on James Harden on RU-vid, period. People just hate on him without knowing his story of how actually good of a player he is.

Imagine if he didn’t have to come off the bench for the first 4 years of his career....

This is great that you made this like not even trolling I appreciate this!!

He is widely disrespected by alot of nba fans, I do hope he wins a chip and get the real recognition he deserves. 👌🚀👑🧙‍♂️

I really hope James Harden wins a title before his career ends 💯. The guy is so gifted it would be ashamed if he gets forgotten bc he never won a ring. I think Houston has a good shot this year. He & Russell Westbrook seem to be on a mission 💯

I'm surprised he didn't have a beard wen he was a child 😂😂😂

"Harden, who will soon turn 32." You took all that time to make the video and get the stats, but didn't check out that he's 30 until the 26th of August?

One of the best sports channels out there no cap. I dont understand how you only have 21k subs

The score really be proving itself as a GOAT sports channel

Dang! HARDEN don’t look like him without the BEARD. 😂

Thank you for this video project & Thank you James Harden for the greatness on & off the court thru it all.

This is well put together! 💯

Needed this 🐐🙏🏽

It all started when he tells his mom to wake him up for him to work hard and till then he does it everyday. He's always on fire 🔥

love these videos!

honestly im happy to see harden on the rockets, his career wouldve been so different on the thunder and the new narratives we got from his trade i think are better than another dynasty wouldve been

Great video!

One of the best videos I’ve ever seen

Bro idc what harden was projected as , if u saw the man in colleg, he was cooking way back then

I don't get how this channel is still so "small". They have a channel about esports (same name but + "esports") that is just as good and that channel is massive. This one puts some top content and doesn't get 10% of the recognition... Both are great. Keep it up.

5:08 watching this shot live was a basketball moment ill never forget

the okc super team vs warriors super team games would’ve been beautiful

PLEASE DO AN EPISODE ON RUSSEL WESTBROOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was a greatly informative video. I should show this to my friends every time they say that Harden chokes in the playoffs.

Living legend.

I first noticed him in some random ballislife compilation video, just one clip, back when he's rocking the fro.. I swear I could sense the guy would be something in the future, just by reading his name and seeing how smooth his handles were..

Well he been playing some solid ass defense and playing good in the playoffs!

1:16 it says navy seaman not navy seal lol, that just means he was in the navy. Regardless of that, great vid👍

He has actually become underrated

The street will never forget Huston Harden😮‍💨

Notiii GANG❗❗

My Goodness... What if that Thunders team stuck together 🔥🔥🔥😭

Lol Harden in HS and College is damn near unrecognizable. Both appearance and game

KD, Westbrook and Harden in same team........ it seems like a dream now.

What could have been : PG: Russell SG: Harden PF: Durant SF: Sefolosha C: Ibaka OKC : 2009-2012

The ball dominators have a little problem with meshing when finding themselves off ball as both being penetrators leave each other off ball in defensive balance position. Ie it appears they're snubbing each other when the forwards, center are the beneficiaries of corner 3s and lobs . They could do better finding one another If they alternatively sometimes played a 1 guard front and swung the other baseline.

James Harden gonna be the all time scorer

If you got drafted behind hasheem thabeet you're probably a future hall of Famer

Chris Paul Thunder just gave them 7 games... People forget Chris Paul is MVP type player when he is the #1 option

May man💪🏿❤️💯

KING

4:28 not gonna lie, westbrook j1 right there is tuff!!!

Y’all ain’t have to do Thabeet like that 🤣🤣

Hidden secrets of draft picks

Yes .... Yes ....

I was there at asu watching him rip fools to shreds

“Finest” huh 😏 lmao, lame joke, in a mood, my bad haha, please, carry on Btw damn your edits are fire seriously, who does them? Contact info maybe? Thanks.

MVP!!

Harden looked lonely before having facial hair

I'll never NOT be impressed by his ability to guard the post. Sometimes against elite big men

Whats the name of the music at the beginning?

James Harden is a player we will talk about 100 years from now

yall forget he averaged a block last season

Just thinking about what if The Seattle Supersonics never left. And KD, Westbrook, Harden & Ibaka all stayed together 👀

What’s the music from 1:49 to 2:59? And from 5:13 to 5:51?

MVP

Fear the beard! 🔥

As disrespectful as he is, you can't help but admit that he is one of the greatest players in NBA history.

15:21 the guy to the right of Harden looks like a dreaded Chris Paul

Harden is the G.O.A.T

I've always told people the no show Harden in the playoffs is a bunch of media & hatas bull. His overall playoff efficiency is good despite what they claim. While in Houston he was getting double & triple teamed & all but twice, when eliminated it was by the team that either won the title or at least was in the finals. The other 2 was to a better OKC his first season in Houston & to Portland in which Dillard hit a game winner to eliminate them. Most of the eliminations came from an overstacked Warriors team. Yet they count that against him as if anybody else could beat that team by themselves in the playoffs.

10:43 LMAO

BAHAHAH THAT REDDIT CHART!! TOO FUNNY

Harden 2020 MVP💯👍

To think that the Thunder front office chose Perkins over him.....Dammit!

All 3 of em won league MVP. Harden wit from the 6man award to MVP. can you imagine if they wuda kept that young thunder team together🤷🏾. Ik they wish they wuda paid Harden instead of Ibaka

Harden is gonna turn 31 soon not 32

If your are into watching free throws non stop during the game then look no further than Dribble dribble master Harden!!

5:51 what instrumental is this??

also，lefty. He changed the game like Curry in recent years, respect. If he wins a ring, top 5 SG all time.

His bread is his power

King of the 1-point, he should be an actor other than a basketball player

How has nobody ever noticed that harden has never been on a team that’s missed the postseason

Harden unlocked the rulebook and exploited it...he has truly mastered the game...do your homework

A very large percentage of NBA fans now are fixated with this idea that greatness can only be achieved by athletic and physical superiority notable modern players with these gifts include LeBron, Giannias, AD, Simmons, and Zion.... while all these no doubt are very skillful, besides maybe LeBron, these players are great primarily because of their physical and athletic gifts...if those gifts were reduced to average by NBA standards none of these would be successful in the NBA... which to me make players like Harden ,Chris Paul, Luka, Jokic,Trae and Curry's domination so impressive right now....they can take over the game against almost always more athletically gifted players by being the smarter player....each posses a creativity that matches any physical attribute a player can possess....each also has skill sets that are almost unstoppable....Curry's unlimited range with incredible effeciency might be the most valuable weapon in the NBA and made Golden State before even KD arguably the greatest team in NBA history and didn't have a single player close to LeBron's or MJ's athleticism...Jokic has the physical gift of being 7' but this is not that rare anymore with at least 3 others on his own team within an inch of this...and the fact that it's on ongoing debate between Embiid and Jokic for best Center in the NBA (it's Jokic IMO) is a perfect example of skill vs Athleticism....Jokic ,like Curry but not as dramatically, changed how Denver ran their offense....and while some Embiid advocates attempting to downplay the passing skills of Jokic by claiming Kareem was a better passer at the 5 it just doesn't compare....Jokic is a 7 foot point guard with elite playmaking skills and can take over the game with his scoring ability too.... Kareem was hitting open players out of doubleteams when the league was more contested in the paint and the fact he was their primary scorer defenses left guys open on the perimeter ....Jokic is creating the offense without the benefit of superstars like Baylor,Magic and the showtime Lakers......Trae is an offensive force but is basically an attempt to capture what Steph did for the Warriors ,while his game is very cerebral and he has dominated statistically it's hard to tell the effectiveness of it when his team never wins....Chris Paul is the master of getting by the defender and making him over compensate by charging to the basket drawing contact and hitting a floater.....his time with the Clippers,Hornets and Thunder showed he was a superstar when he was allowed to control the game...in Houston he sometimes disappeared with Harden and was a terrible fit....OKC is an ideal role for him....he's very smart but I think a control freak....when on a team with other egos he will bring friction at times....but with a team full of young talent and underappreciated veterans like Gallionari, who does nothing but get buckets and keep his mouth shut, Chris Paul thrives...the last two might be the most polarizing players in the NBA and really only Curry has avoided this opinion but Luka and Harden it's incredible the amount of hate these two get....Luka has a huge amount of passionate fans and that's evident in the All-star vote which like LeBron produces a very vocal group of haters..... LeBron's haters imo mostly diehard MJ fans that feel it's their duty to discredit LeBron's achievements so nobody forgets their hero(MJ is the goat LeBron fans but LeBron is a beast no doubt but if you are a muscular 6'8 with the speed of Westbrook and the explosiveness of pre injury D Rose with the playmaking ability exceeding most PG while sharing the floor with AD,Kyrie,Ray Allen, Chris Bosh, Kevin Love and Dwayne Wade getting beat by the Spurs twice, an over the hill Mavs team, and many other inferior teams he was never the dominant force MJ was) and Luka's haters consist of Suns, King's,mostly Hawks fans, recently LeBron fans and many more for controversial reasons I'm not getting into....Harden it feels like it's everyone that's not a Rockets fan....these two along with Larry Bird and Curry are going to be the greatest players to dominate the game in being the most crafty, intelligent, resourceful and most of all creative players on the court and I'll admit lacking the physical talent the defense isn't transcendent but with the exception of Trae all these players are automatically assumed to be bad at defense but in Hardens and Luka's cases it's taken a whole new life because most metrics have them right at average...and since team defense is not an accurate reflection of their defensive ability because of so many different factors outside their control this when possible is what is used to spread the narrative.... I would be shocked if anyone read this and if they did probably thinks I'm crazy...this is what happens to a massive sports fan that has nothing else and since Harden and Giannias had their little feud I've given this a lot of thought and wanted to share my opinion (which might go down as the longest comment on RU-vid) so I'd be happy to get thoughts on this subject if I actually have any readers lol

The one that got away

Can you do PG13 next?

The more I learn about the James Harden OKC trade, the more I see ridiculous these owners are

It’s guardable

I just think it's funny that Harden wasn't able to start on OKC cuz coach wasn't gonna start him over Russ but now Russ is on Hardens team deferring to him. OKC which once had 3 MVP's on the same team, now has none. Tables do turn, my friends....

Correlation does not imply causation

10:45 he sucks the "D" in Lmaooo

I didn’t know harden used to wear an undershirt under his jersey during games like luka. He should bring that back

The money wasn't the problem let's be real. The real problem was the people above, imagine you know your a superstar potential but you're sacrificing your time for the team doing everything now you have to sacrifice your money too? Damn that sucks.

It's surprising that he's not in the 50-40-90 club.

For anyone who trys to ignore the flops. Imagine if every player does that. Imagine your basketball games turning into soccer matches. Theres a reason why other players don't flop because its a disgrace to sportsmanship and deserves no honor. Any players that flops to that degree should be ashamed of themselves.

LMAOO JAMES HARDER HAS HIS JERSEY HANGING UP IN A STRIP CLUB

imagine 2018 harden, 2017 russel, 2012 kd

Thats crazy that he played with Russ at the boys and girls club

so this is just an evolution of his beard

You can’t say that about everybody

And now he is on Brooklyn Nets

Image if they kept him and Durant!!

Whos here after him going to the nets . Time for harden to get a ring .

in 1 team you dont need a superstar. look at toronto now a new championship caliber team

how many rings?

Who’s watching this after the harden trade

ive never seen his chin before this video

Bearden Iverson