{"id":136195,"date":"2020-02-25T09:18:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T08:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=136195"},"modified":"2020-02-25T09:18:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T08:18:09","slug":"harden-attended-kobes-memorial-service-in-l-a-then-flew-to-houston-and-scored-37pts-vs-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/harden-attended-kobes-memorial-service-in-l-a-then-flew-to-houston-and-scored-37pts-vs-knicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Harden attended Kobe&#8217;s Memorial Service in L.A. then flew to Houston and scored 37pts vs. Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Harden was in Los Angeles, at the Staples Center, on Monday afternoon to attend Kobe and Gianna&#8217;s Memorial Service.<\/p>\n<p>He was with his teammates Russell Westbrook and PJ Tucker. After the ceremony they took the flight to Houston for the game against the Knicks in which he scored 37 points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/recap?gameId=401161495\">Per ESPN,<\/a> For James Harden, it wasn&#8217;t a choice.<\/p>\n<p>He had to be at Kobe and Gianna Bryant&#8217;s memorial service in Los Angeles on Monday even though his Houston Rockets had a game that night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was everything just to pay my respects,&#8221; Harden said. &#8220;To show my condolences to the family. Obviously it&#8217;s a tough time for them, for the entire world, so it was a must that I be there and show my respects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harden, Russell Westbrook and P.J. Tucker arrived at the arena about 70 minutes before tip-off after attending the memorial service.<\/p>\n<p>Harden scored 37 points, and the Rockets beat the New York Knicks 123-112 for their fourth straight victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s unbelievable what he can do tired or distracted and not in his routine but he just keeps plugging away,&#8221; coach Mike D&#8217;Antoni said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why we value him. He doesn&#8217;t miss games or minutes and he just plays.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harden: it was a must that I be there and show my respects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[435,744,769],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-136195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-houston-rockets","tag-james-harden-en","tag-kobe-bryant-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136195"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=136195"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=136195"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=136195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}