James Harden overtakes Stephen Curry for 10th in playoff scoring
CLEVELAND — James Harden handed Stephen Curry on the NBA’s all-time playoff scoring listing, transferring into 10th place in the primary quarter of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Game 6 loss to the Detroit Pistons on Friday.
Harden hit a step-back 3-pointer from the fitting wing with 7:40 remaining in the primary quarter, giving him 4,148 postseason factors. Curry has scored 4,147 factors.
Harden completed with 23 factors on 6-for-13 taking pictures in the Cavaliers’ 115-94 loss to the Pistons. The Eastern Conference semifinal sequence is tied at 3 with Game 7 set to be performed in Detroit on Sunday.
On the identical evening Harden moved into the highest 10 on the NBA’s all-time playoff scoring listing, he additionally turned the ball over eight instances and handed Shaquille O’Neal (649) for third on the all-time playoff turnover leaderboard. It marked Harden’s thirty first profession playoff recreation with extra turnovers than made area targets, tied for fourth most in the NBA because the playoffs expanded to seven-game sequence in all rounds in 2003.
The No. 3 choose in the 2009 NBA draft, Harden is in his seventeenth season and first in Cleveland after a midseason trade despatched Darius Garland to the LA Clippers. Harden has appeared in the playoffs in each season of his profession and has performed in 186 postseason video games, which ranks fifteenth in NBA historical past.
