Daryl Morey doesn’t just believe he employs the NBA’s best scorer. The Rockets general manager is convinced he has the greatest scorer of all-time.

Morey, whose 2012 trade for James Harden vaulted the former Oklahoma City sixth man into a superstar, uses his beloved advanced analytics to make the unpopular case that the Rockets’ MVP is better at doing than what Michael Jordan did best.

“If you looked at data [in 2012], once he had the ball in his hands, and it’s still true to this day, I get a lot of s— because someone asked me, ‘Who’s a better scorer, him or Michael Jordan?’ It’s just factual that James Harden is a better scorer than Michael Jordan now,” Morey said on the eSports podcast, “Selfmade with Nadeshot,” when asked about trading for Harden. “Based on the math? You give James Harden the ball, and before you’re giving up the ball, how many points do you generate? Which is how you should measure offense.”

Morey claims he knew this before Harden came to Houston, when the third-year guard was averaging 16.8 points and playing in the shadow of Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook.

“James Harden is by far No. 1 in NBA history, and he was No. 1 even at the Oklahoma City Thunder,” Morey said. “It’s just he was coming off the bench and he was a little more hidden, so you needed good data to suss that out. So, we knew he had that amazing skill to be a scorer.”

This past season, Harden, 29, averaged a career-high 36.1 points per game, marking the league’s highest total since Jordan, who averaged 37.1 points in 1986-87. Of course, while Jordan dealt with constant hand-checking and far more physical defenses, Harden has blossomed in the era of the 3-point revolution.

“People hate it,” Morey said of his belief. “The counter-argument is reasonable: If you put Michael Jordan on a team now, he would do more than James Harden. That’s possible, but if you’re just saying NBA history, if you give this guy the ball, how much does his team score after you give him the ball before the other team gets the ball? It’s James Harden. I know that makes people mad, [but] it’s literally a fact.”