{"id":244388,"date":"2026-05-20T20:37:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/james-harden-had-the-lamest-comment-about-getting-torched-by-jalen-brunson\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:37:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:37:44","slug":"james-harden-had-the-lamest-comment-about-getting-torched-by-jalen-brunson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/james-harden-had-the-lamest-comment-about-getting-torched-by-jalen-brunson\/","title":{"rendered":"James Harden had the lamest comment about getting torched by Jalen Brunson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/cleveland_cavaliers\/69\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>  guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/james_harden\/91252\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Harden<\/a> spent much of Tuesday\u2019s Eastern Conference Finals Game 1 getting torched by  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/new_york_knicks\/65\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Knicks<\/a>  guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/jalen_brunson\/585800\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jalen Brunson<\/a>, and his comments about the performance are not inspiring much confidence that things will change in Game 2. <\/p>\n<p>Harden admitted that Brunson made some \u201ctough ones\u201d during the Knicks\u2019 dramatic comeback win over Cleveland at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York. However, Harden seemed unwilling to take much of the blame for Brunson\u2019s eruption, and said the Cavaliers had to do a better job on him as a team.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe made some tough ones. He\u2019s a great one-on-one player,\u201d Harden said. \u201cI think anybody on an island, it\u2019s going to be difficult, so we\u2019ve got to do a better job of making sure he sees bodies. They do a good job of supporting him and helping him when he\u2019s on an island.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to do a better job as a team, just because it\u2019s not a one-man job.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/james_harden_had_the_lamest_comment_about_getting_torched_by_jalen_brunson\/s1_127_43865224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland Cavaliers guard James Harden spent much of Tuesday\u2019s Eastern Conference Finals Game 1 getting torched by New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson, and his comments about the performance are not inspiring much confidence that things will change in Game 2. Harden admitted that Brunson made some \u201ctough ones\u201d during the Knicks\u2019 dramatic comeback win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-244388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}