Career atlas

James Harden: 17 seasons, 6 teams, 1 competitions

From 2009-10 to 2025-26

Confidence: highData through: 2009-10 → 2025-26

The question

How did James Harden evolve?

The evidence

When it really changed

24.6 points per gamecompared against: 34.3 points per game (-9.7 · -28 %) · James Harden in 2019-20

The stints

One row per stint: league, team and years. Chronological order; when two overlap, the origin comes first.

OKC2009-10 → 2011-12
NBA · 3 seasons
HOU2012-13 → 2019-20
NBA · 8 seasons
BKN → HOU2020-21
NBA · 1 season
BKN → PHI2021-22
NBA · 1 season
PHI2022-23
NBA · 1 season
LAC2023-24 → 2024-25
NBA · 2 seasons
CLE2025-26
NBA · 1 season

When it really changed

Not every season is a change. Only jumps above the threshold declared below appear here. «Changed» means a jump larger than 4.1 points per game. It is a declared threshold, not a model.

2012-13Team change: from OKC to HOU
NBA · HOU
Before
2011-12 · OKC · 16.8 points per game
After
2012-13 · HOU · 25.9 points per game
The measure
+9.1 points per game versus the previous season
Context
NBA · HOU
2020-21Team change: from HOU to HOU
NBA · BKN
Before
2019-20 · HOU · 34.3 points per game
After
2020-21 · BKN · HOU · 24.6 points per game
The measure
-9.7 points per game versus the previous season
Context
NBA · BKN
2021-22Team change: from HOU to PHI
NBA · BKN
Before
2020-21 · HOU · 24.6 points per game
After
2021-22 · BKN · PHI · 22.0 points per game
Context
NBA · BKN
2023-24Team change: from PHI to LAC
NBA · LAC
Before
2022-23 · PHI · 21.0 points per game
After
2023-24 · LAC · 16.6 points per game
The measure
-4.4 points per game versus the previous season
Context
NBA · LAC

Production, season by season

An ACB point and an NBA point are not the same unit. The line puts seasons side by side; it does not make them equal.

2009-109.9 points per game
NBA · OKC · 76 games
2010-1112.2 points per game
NBA · OKC · 82 games
2011-1216.8 points per game
NBA · OKC · 62 games
2012-1325.9 points per game
NBA · HOU · 78 games
2013-1425.4 points per game
NBA · HOU · 73 games
2014-1527.4 points per game
NBA · HOU · 81 games
2015-1629.0 points per game
NBA · HOU · 82 games
2016-1729.1 points per game
NBA · HOU · 81 games
2017-1830.4 points per game
NBA · HOU · 72 games
2018-1936.1 points per game
NBA · HOU · 78 games
2019-2034.3 points per game
NBA · HOU · 68 games
2020-2124.6 points per game
NBA · BKN → HOU · 44 games
2021-2222.0 points per game
NBA · BKN → PHI · 65 games
2022-2321.0 points per game
NBA · PHI · 58 games
2023-2416.6 points per game
NBA · LAC · 72 games
2024-2522.8 points per game
NBA · LAC · 79 games
2025-2623.6 points per game
NBA · CLE · 70 games

FactDerivedAssumption

What this does not prove

An ACB point and an NBA point are not the same unit. The line puts seasons side by side; it does not make them equal.
«Changed» means a jump larger than 4.1 points per game. It is a declared threshold, not a model.
Role is read from minutes and production. We do not have a declared position for every European season.

From here

Professional DNA

What kind of player he is at the end of that road

What if…?

What happened to his team when he did not play

Where it comes from

Source

not stated

Model input

not stated

Computation

not stated

This answer

2026-10-12

Where this comes from

Season averages · closed season · its clock is the seasonSeasons outside the NBA · closed season · its clock is the season

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