Shootaround (March 31) -- James Harden intends to play through wrist pain

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No. 1: Harden will continue to play through pain -- No team is more locked into its playoff spot than the Houston Rockets, who are 6 1/2 games behind the second-place San Antonio Spurs and five games ahead of the fourth-place Utah Jazz in the Western Conference. And with James Harden dealing with a sore wrist and only seven games left to play, it would seem like a good time to give him some rest. But Harden, who has said that availability should be a factor in MVP voting, has no intention of sitting. The MVP candidate ranks second in total minutes (after leading the league each of the last two seasons) and has shot 16-for-50 (32 percent) in his last two games, but said before Thursday's loss in Portland that he intends to play through the pain. Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle has the story:

March 31, 2017 at 11:49PM

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