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Orlando MagicVERSUSHouston Rockets

2017-18 · Regular Season · Jan 30, 2018

Houston and Orlando played a regular-season game that became a one-man offensive workload.

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Starting fives

Verified starters

Home starting five
Houston Rockets
StarterCCClint Capela
StarterEGEric Gordon
StarterJHJames Harden
StarterLMLuc Mbah a Moute
StarterRARyan Anderson
Away starting five
Orlando Magic
StarterBBBismack Biyombo
StarterEPElfrid Payton
StarterEFEvan Fournier
StarterJSJonathon Simmons
StarterMHMario Hezonja

The five starters come from each team’s saved NBA box-score order. Exact positions are omitted because this archive does not reliably provide them.

Before the game

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Houston was pursuing the league's best record through an offense built almost entirely around James Harden's creation. With Chris Paul and Trevor Ariza unavailable, Harden's burden against Orlando expanded from leading scorer to nearly every part of the attack.

  • No player in NBA history had recorded a 60-point triple-double.
  • Harden was also chasing the first MVP award of a career already defined by several close finishes.

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