James Harden sitting at fourth place on the all-time leaderboard for most 50-point games makes plenty of sense. He's been perhaps the NBA's most dangerous one-on-one scorer for more than a decade now. He has three scoring titles. These are the traits one would expect out of a 50-point scorer.

The shorthanded LA Clippers finally snapped their three-game losing streak in a very improbable win against a surging Detroit Pistons team on Wednesday night. The Clippers were fueled with desperation all night,

It was Harden's first 50-point game since December 2019 and the first 50-point game by a Clippers player since Lou Williams in January 2018.