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Harden's MVP is a young boy's dream come true

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - James Harden sat on a folding chair inside the worn gym at the middle school he attended in Los Angeles. It was the night before the NBA crowned him with its highest individual award. He was dressed in black pants and a black T-shirt whose gold lettering spelled out a message he once wrote in a letter to his mother.

He told her he was going to be a star one day. That's not something he told people often, though, because adults tend

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