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podcast network coming up. We're going to talk about James Harden with my old grant land

colleague, Zach Low, who still works for ESPN, who is one of the best sports writers in America

and somebody who has been on my podcast, standing back to the old Grandland days.

Zach and I taped this right before the season about James Harden and since the season started,

he's averaging almost 40 points a game. He has taken everything up another level. We wonder

in the podcast year about to listen to was there another level to go and of course we decided no.

He averaged 36 points a game last year. That's not happening again. Well, he's almost averaging

40 right now. So this is an interesting time to run this podcast as well as the accompanying

podcast that we're going to run that Joe House and I did about the last three games of the Spurs

Thunder Western Conference finals in 2012, which you can hear as well on this feed. But right now,

James Harden in the pyramid, my name is Bill Simmons, my guest is Zach Low. Here we go.

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