In Sunday’s 116-102 victory over the Lakers, Harden passed Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson (26,710 points) for 14th on the career scoring list. Harden finished the game with 21 points (9-for-16 shooting), four rebounds and 12 assists. He now could pass Hakeem Olajuwon (26,946) by season’s end.

Oscar Robertson is second with 181. Ben Simmons played for the first time since Jan. 1 and had 10 points and six assists for Brooklyn, which has dropped ... half with a 25-9 spurt that made it 90-68. The Nets rallied in the fourth quarter and got within ...

Nikola Jokic had 35 points, 15 assists and 12 rebounds in his return to the lineup, Russell Westbrook had 25 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists, and the Denver Nuggets beat the Brooklyn Nets 124-105 on Friday (Saturday in Manila).

Blackburn recaps the Nuggets win over the Nets on Friday and how the Westbrook/Jokic duo keeps getting better.

Oscar Robertson is second with 181. The Nuggets used a late second-quarter run to take the lead for good, then opened the second half with a 25-9 spurt that made it 90-68. The Nets got within 97 ...

Oscar Robertson is second with 181. Ben Simmons played for the first time since Jan. 1 and had 10 points and six assists for Brooklyn ... that made it 90-68. The Nets got within 97-92 before ...

Oscar Robertson is second with 181. The Nuggets used a late second-quarter run to take the lead for good, then opened the second half with a 25-9 spurt that made it 90-68. The Nets got within 97 ...

Oklahoma City has opened a 24-7 lead on the Nets, with Gilgeous-Alexander’s 12 points leading the way. Brooklyn is cold out of the gate, shooting just 2-15, with five of their seven points coming from Noah Clowney. The pump fake. The spin move. The finish.

If James Harden continues on this path, he should be able to pass Oscar Robertson and Hakeem Olajuwon by the end of this current campaign.

Particularly in his time with the Houston Rockets, James Harden was one of the most-talented scorers that the game has ever seen. While some weren’t fond of his habit of chasing fouls to earn an extraordinary amounts of trips to the foul line,

James Harden scores 21 points to pass Hawks legend Dominique Wilkins, and Hakeem Olajuwon (26,946) should be soon within reach.

The Brooklyn Nets and the rest of the league are three weeks away from the NBA Trade Deadline, and moves are being planned behind the scenes. Bleacher Report writer Eric Pincus believes that ...