 when James Harden is healthy there are not many teams in the league that can stop him. His return tonight is a welcome sight for everyone in Netsland. Prior to the hamstring strain he suffered on the last day of March. Harden was having a fantastic season in 34 games with the Nets. The nine-time all-star was shooting nearly 47% from the field while averaging just a tick above 25 points per game to go along with 11 assists and nearly nine rebounds. For all the latest now we want to bring in our Michael Grady and Michael you know my partner in the studio Frank Isola always says that James Harden was in that MVP conversation until he got hurt. Well put that aside put the MVP discussion aside James Harden is back and that's what Nets fans are most concerned about. Yeah no doubt about it a lot of excitement about James Harden returning he's been putting a lot of work in the gym making sure that he's ready to give it a go and they've taken a lot of precaution as well with the performance team working with James and making sure that he's not 100% 200% ready to get back out there on the court. Remember after he initially hurt it against the Houston Rockets he tried to make a comeback against the New York Knicks only played four games and it had to step out. He was rehabbing and then had a setback which led to an extended stay of James Harden being out of the lineup and after more than a month he's ready to return. Earlier I talked with Steve Nash and I asked him how James Harden will be utilized tonight. Yeah he'll be on a you know minutes restriction we'll monitor that and make sure that we try to mitigate the risk as much as possible and ease him back into play but uh yeah that's that's basically the plan similar to when Kevin returned from the hamstring as well. Now Chris you said everybody is excited about James Harden being back the fans here at Barkley Center excited the coaching staff definitely excited. Hey we're excited but nobody has to be more excited than James Harden's teammates and the way that he's able to create for other guys on the floor he draws and jump double teams just like Kevin Durant and Kyle Reirving but his craftiness and his ability to have precision passes to his teammates and set them up for high quality looks there are a number of guys on this Nets roster who are having career highs in terms of shooting percentage and James Harden is a big reason why and his ability to get his guys easy looks so they're all excited about his return Chris.