Howard Tells James Harden: ‘I’ll Adjust To You’

With big man Dwight Howard expected to play for the first time in more than two months Wednesday night, a bit of bad news for Houston Rockets rivals: James Harden is still going to play like James Harden.

“He said, ‘I’ll be returning soon, but I don’t want you to change your game,” Harden told USA TODAY Sports on Tuesday. “He said, ‘I don’t want you to do anything different. Just go out there and do what you do, and do it at a high level every single night.’ He said, ‘I’ll adjust to you,’ and that right there gave me confidence to just play, and play my game and not worry about anything else. Once you hear that from your other leader, then you know you can just go out there and play the way that I’ve been playing.

“I definitely needed to hear that, and he told it to me.”

via Sam Amick of USA TODAY Sports