James Edward Harden Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Arizona State, where he was named a consensus All-American and Pac-10 Player of the Year in 2009.

Harden was selected with the third overall pick in 2009 NBA draft by the Oklahoma City Thunder. In 2012, he was named NBA Sixth Man of the Year with the Thunder and helped the team reach the NBA Finals, where they lost to the Miami Heat in five games.

Rockets defeated Jazz by 118-98 in the Playoff Series at the American Basketball League NBA. The Houston Rockets team has made a 2-0 lead in the Best of Seven Series.

James Harden of Houston Rockets has 32 points, 13 rebounds, and 10 assists. They triple-double for the third time in the NBA. He is the sixth player to triple-double three or more times in the postseason.

James believe that the performance shown by them and the Jazz was amazing and very tough but apart from this they won the match and play in forwarding match of the tournament.

Rockets lead its first-round series by winning the match with the score of 122-90 in Game 1 and 118-98 in Wednesday's in Game 2 and by this both the match win by the Rocket and after the win, they hit series with the lead.

Harden is in the MVP running, alongside the Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo, and he was typically influential against the Jazz in Game 2, scoring a 32-point triple-double.

The now standard "M-V-P!" chants from the home the crowd roared Harden on, yet he insists that he needs no motivation to perform.

"There's nothing that anybody can say to get me going — I'm already going," he said. "I've been going like this for the last five years."Those chants are just pretty normal. I focus on the game and what I need to do and being the best player on the court every night."

Their effort and impact on the defensive end will have to improve if they want to give their offence and season a chance.