Adrian Wojnarowski on NBA Today: "Harden has essentially forced his way out of a second team in consecutive years. ... He's been paired with a lot of stars in this league and he gets a new one: Joel Embiid."

Harden passes out of the double team to get Dean Wade the wide open look He unfortunately doesn't look at the hoop

Inside the NBA Chuck on Jalen Brunson targeting James Harden This dude out here like Karl Malone he going hunting

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

Tim Connelly on San Antonio and Oklahoma City changing the equation for what winning the Western Conference looks like going forwardI think the equation changes when you see the two teams playing in the Western Conference right now and how good they are We got smacked by Oklahoma City last year

Donovan Mitchell speaks highly of James Harden This man changed the game of basketball in ways we have never seen before We live in such a ring-dominant culture that we were willing to write a guy off a guy that has transcended basketball 75 years no one has done what he does

Nick Wright All year I heard how the old guys CurryStephKawhiKDHarden are better than LeBron I live in NYC I saw Steph yesterday at the Met Gala KD somewhere ruining a locker room via Twitter Kawhi winning Pablo a Pulitzer LeBron is throwing alley-oops to his son and clinching series