Two months after the 2018-19 NBA Awards were revealed, Houston Rockets superstar James Harden opened up about not winning his second consecutive Kia MVP.

In a radio interview with 97.9 The Box, Harden described his most recent campaign as "one for the books" and believes a media-constructed narrative impacted his chance at finishing atop the MVP race.

“Once the media, they create a narrative about somebody from the beginning of the year, I think they just take that narrative and just run with it the entire year," Harden said during the in-studio interview. "I don’t want to get into details. All I can do is control what I can do, and I went out there and did what I was supposed to do at a high level. There’s only a few other seasons that anybody has ever done that before.”