James Harden showed out in his debut with the Cavs to help them to a win in Sacramento.
This looked like another dominant season for the Western Conference, and through the first 13 weeks, it was just that. Through Jan. 19, the West was 120-91 (.569) in games against the East, what would have been its second best interconference mark in the last 11 years.
But things have changed in the last 20 days. Since Jan. 20, the East is 48-22 against the West, putting the season-long tally in interconference games at West 142, East 139. That (.495) would be the East’s fourth best record in the last 27 years.
At this point, the seventh-place team in the West (Phoenix) would still be in sixth place in the East. But things are now a lot…