Austin Rivers on James Harden: "I try to steal some of his stuff. I'm not going to try the step back obviously. It didn't work for Steph so I know it's not going to work for me...James actually doesn't travel when he does it, from what I've seen."

Ausar Thompson strips James Harden and continues with a horrible alley-oop pass to Cade Cunningham on a 2-on-1 fastbreak Donovan Mitchell misses the floater and James Harden strips Tobias Harris

James Harden scores the jumper over Isaiah Stewart but he gets called for the traveling violation - a double dribble Harden protests

Landry Shamet hits back to back wide open 3s and then hits a step back 3 in James Harden's face with replays

JB Bickerstaff on James Harden He has an unbelievable ability to manipulate what the rules are We would play 1 on 1 when I coached in Houston and he would foul bait me

James Harden turns around and hits the step back jumper with a replay

Kenny Atkinson James Harden is a good isolation defender I was a little more upset with our back line defense Everybody's putting it on James Sure some of it was him Sometimes micro experiences get exaggerated