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Good morning and welcome to the show everybody. I got a lot to talk about because we've got

MBA and of course the beginning of the NFL playoffs obviously in the NBA the talk of the town and just basically the league in general is James Hardin

I mean Hardin again burying the warriors Thursday night with a 44.10 rebound 15 assist game including a game-winning

three-pointer with Dreymon Green and Clay Thompson draped over him.

Obviously everyone's talking about how Dominant Harden has been this year,

but we're getting a little bit crazy with some of the talk because Rockets GM,

Darrow Mori, basically said the following, you can make a, you could argue for him as the

best offensive player of all time.

Let's be clear, Hardin is having another MVP season, well deserved, he's going off, he's averaging 33 points a game, but let's be clear

about the rationale behind how those points are getting gathered. Hardin is an expert at baiting teams into fouling him.

He flops all the time and he hooks people.

I mean it's not as though it's unwarranted because with the NBA rule changes that came into effect once David Stern got ticked off with the leaked product of watching the Spurs and Pistons engage in a seven game series

that was a rock fight the entire way through over a decade ago.

He made sure to get rid of hand checking in any other form of

defense you could play in the league to make it a point-guard-driven league and

he's gotten they've the NBA got what they wanted. I mean hardened true to four has actually perfected the science. I mean you started seeing it with Steve Nash and like in AI but like teams have started to

figure out if you can't you can't face guard someone you can't you can't put your

hands on them and they're constantly jumping into you or in Harden's case

they also have prevented you from being able to prevent them from driving to the

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