(54% from the NBA 3point line)

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Player of the Week: James Harden

James Harden averaged 30, 5, and 5 with almost 2 steals a game this week on 55% from the field, 90% from the line, and 54% from 3pt land. This is now the longest stretch Kevin Durant has gone this season without getting the POTW award from the commissioner. A late Kobe Bryant scoring burst gave momentum for a second POTW nomination, but his turnover's no doubt hurt his candidacy. This is James Harden's first POTW award.

Past Players of the Week

Kyle Lowry (Week 1)

Kobe Bryant (Week 2)

Kevin Durant (Weeks 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 13, 15)

Chris Paul (Week 5)

Lebron James (Weeks 6, 9, 17 [NSFL All Star Game MVP])

Jameer Nelson (Week 10)

Jrue Holiday (Week 12)

Stephen Curry(Week 14)

Samuel Dalembert (Week 16)

KEY TRANSACTIONS

smart_guyz traded Jamal Crawford to New York Phantom Menace for Goran Dragic.

Valar Morghulis traded Omer Asik to KnightsOfTheApollo for Tyson Chandler.

Boomshakalaka! traded O.J. Mayo, Marreese Speights, and Marcin Gortat to the shawim for DeMar DeRozan, Tim Duncan, and Andrew Nicholson.

Kobe Bryant RATATATA traded Manu The Poo God Ginobili, Nikola Pekovic, and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist to the Lil' Puddingtons for Jonas Valanciunas and James Harden.

Boomshakalaka! traded Andre Drummond and DeMar DeRozan to firstto100 for Bradley Beal and Thaddeus Young.

The Lil' Puddingtons traded Manu Ginobili to the Lazy Aces for Derrick Rose.

STANDINGS

( - - ) indicates record, [#] indicates current playoff seed

SoCalGal Division

1. LFE wnats cuhkies (80-69-4) [#4]
2. Boomshakalaka! (69-83-1)
3. the shawism (66-85-2 )
4. firstto100 (57-93-3)
5. Point Forwards (48-101-4)

bluexfalcon Division

1. Valar Morghulis (97-55-1) [#1]
2. Pat Railly's Kult (92-58-3 ) [#5]
3. The Kingslayer (82-71-0) [#8]
4. Horriballers (72-78-3)
5. ArTESTIFY! (63-88-2)

lakergirl Division

1. Kobe Bryan RATATATA (94-58-1) [#2]
2. Jeremy Lin (82-68-3) [#7]
3. Valar Dohaeris (75-72-6)
4. The Lil' Puddingtons (76-75-2)
5. All Dwight Long (58-95-0)

DexterFishmore Division

1. Koshu (91-59-3) [#3]
2. NY Phantom Menace (84-68-1) [#6]
3. smart_guyz (75-75-3)
4. The Lazy Aces (75-76-2)
5. KnightsPfTheApollo (69-78-6)

WEEK 18 SCHEDULE

Valar Morghulis vs Horriballers

The Lil' Puddingtons vs Zayn Malik (the team formerly known as Jeremy Lin)

LFE wnats cuhkies vs the shawism

Koshu vs smart_guyz

KnightsOfTheApollo vs The Lazy Aces

ArTESTIFY! vs Pat Railly's Kult

Valar Dohaeris vs All Dwight Long

NY Phantom Menace vs The Kingslayer

Boomshakalaka! vs Point Forwards

Kobe Bryant RATATATA vs firstto100

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