Fun is a relative term. In the eyes of some NBA pundits and some on basketball Twitter, the Rockets are a team full of role players who are having no fun, players full of disdain toward James Harden. To those critics, fun represents equal access to the ball, balanced scoring from top to bottom, passing and cutting in the halfcourt.



The Rockets, however, are less worried about fun and more set on reaching the NBA Finals, and know the best way for them to win games, especially with all their injuries, is to put the ball in Harden’s hands and let last season’s league MVP dominate in isolation.



“He’s just doing whatever you gotta do to win,” says Chris Paul, who has watched his teammate score 30 or more points in 30 consecutive games, the most recent being Monday night’s victory over Dallas. “I think everybody gets caught up in how many points he’s scoring, how many times he’s dribbling, how many times...