James Harden has lost a game 7 with 4 different NBA teams

Wherever James Harden tried to go, Christian Braun was in his own way. To do this, thank the personal scouting report, which was offered from Harden's former teammates and the nuggets sixth man Russell Westbrook. He passed on many useful tips to guard Braun about guarding the star of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Harden was covered by brown all night. He was only 2 out of 8 from the ground and scored seven points on Saturday in game 7 of her first round of her first round of the first round of the first round of the Nuggets.

Harden has lost a game 7 with four different teams: The Houston Rockets (2018), Brooklyn Nets (2021), Philadelphia 76ers (2023) and now The Clipper. With these four losses, Harden achieved an average of 17.5 points per game, while 33.8% (22 out of 65) were shot from the ground.

His teams won 3: 4 throughout his career in game 7.

This year's Matchup with the Nuggets was a sporadic shooting series for hardy everywhere when he shot 43.6%. After playing 1 32 points in game, he achieved the rest of the series on average only 16.5 points per game.

“James is a tough cover,” said Westbrook, who was teammates with harden last season. “Christian did a good job and tried to make the game difficult with him. I thought he did an excellent job and he did it all year round.”

Braun distracted the loan. He said he could play a closer defense against hardy because of players like Aaron Gordon behind him. They waited there, only in the event that harden triggered.

“I couldn't pick him up and put the whole game under pressure if I didn't have the boys behind me, who were flown around,” said Braun.

Braun listened carefully to the words of Westbrook wisdom.

“He played against James. He played with James, so he knows his game,” said Braun. “He told me what to give him, when he looked at this look, when to do this, when he should force him correctly, if he goes, is what he does. I learned that in the course of this series. I always got better than we went and the boys and the coaches trusted me this evening. We didn't want to stop me all night all night.”

Braun was also just as big in the offensive end. He had 21 points, including three 3 points in game 7. But it was his defense that brought most praise.

“He did what he did,” said Nugget's interim coach David Adelman. “We tried to be a little more conservative when he crossed half a place in reporting. But then it was up to Christian to get through screens and come back to him to maintain our defense.”

It was a rougher 48th birthday for Clipper's coach Tyronn Lue. His team stayed in double digits at half -time and fell back by 35 points in the fourth quarter.

“Hard loss. Not in a situation like this to play our best game, many emotions,” said Lue. “I said boys that they should bring it in, one last hug.”

You can take consolation in the fact that Kawhi Leonard goes into the low season, which is as healthy as it has been for some time. He only gave his season debut on January 4 due to problems with his surgically repaired right knee. Harden kept things down until Leonard returned, which applauded Lue.

The Clippers entered the late season as the hottest team in the league after winning 18 out of 21, and Lue already looked over the disappointment.

“These two together for a whole season I think they will be enormous,” said Lue.

However, Harden will be 36 in August and Leonard next month. Is there a measure of encouragement that the clipper can continue to build around them?

“I think we still play at a high level in a sense,” said Leonard. “It is a difficult question to be answered now.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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