Hurricane Sandy still keeping you away from the nightly sports action? Did some Halloween boozin’ take precedence over the NBA? If so, we’ve got you covered. Just don’t let this become a habit. A lack of basketball is bad for you, it’s science.

As you might remember, yesterday was Halloween and as long as you don’t live in New Jersey, perhaps you were able to celebrate. So too were some of your favorite athletes. Check out to see their Halloween sentiments, plus a very blessed James Harden. Read on and be sure to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.. Now, on to our spooky morning words of wisdom.

James Harden was the third fiddle in OKC. He was nearly the 12th fiddle on Team USA. But on the Houston Rockets, he is Charlie effing Daniels — and he is The Man. It’s just one game, but Harden left no doubts in anyone’s mind that he is the undoubted leader of this Rockets team.

Welcome to “Pretty Much Screwed,” our 2012-13 guide to the upcoming NBA season, in which we identify the reasons why your favorite team might have to start looking forward to 2013-2014 — and highlight at least one reason for you to be hopeful. Today: the James Harden-less Oklahoma City Thunder.

By now, you’ve heard all about Saturday night’s big trade in the NBA that sent Oklahoma City’s James Harden to Houston. But what does this trade mean for the Thunder, for Harden, for the Rockets? Who won and lost this trade?

Happy Halloween! If you were like most of the country, you went to a Halloween party last night and missed a lot of action while you were out getting drunk on pumpkin ale.

After YouTube clips, social media, and a combination of Manu Ginobili, James Harden, and Shane Battier brought the issue of flopping to the forefront of the NBA for the past couple seasons, the league has finally taken official steps in an attempt to prevent the act. Unfortunately, the new penalties the league is instituting might cause more problems than they solve.

This is James Harden, it seems, holding a wad of cash at a strip club while a stripper dances in front of him. We’re not really sure where this takes place, but you’d think that Harden would be a bit more careful in his extra curricular activities. Not that we care, at all, but just so we don’t have to endure some sanctimonious moral grandstanding.

So yesterday, Dan posted a photo of James Harden looking absolutely phenomenal at an all-white yacht party. We wanted to see more from this insane-looking party, so we turned to the internet for help. And the internet delivered. More from the party of the century after the jump.

Leopard print cowboy hat? Check. Gold chain? Check. Room full of beautiful women in white? Check and mate. Congrats James Harden — you have reached the mountaintop. What mountaintop that is, I don’t know, but I do believe it’s a mountaintop I’d like to find myself on some day. The full splendor, after the jump.