Forbes.com contributor Rahat Huq in his blog recently wrote, "This year, Harden averaged 83.4 touches per game, which was good for tenth in the league. He led the league in average seconds per touch at 6.34. He
also led the league at 5.86 dribbles per touch. In 2016-2017, Harden led the league with 96.1 touches per game, was third in the league at 5.78 seconds per touch and was fifteenth in the league in average dribbles per touch at 4.96. So, we see that this season, while dribbling and holding onto the ball longer, Harden sacrificed his overall touches. Despite that, he won the MVP.
This year, Paul was all the way down at 29th in the league at touches per game at 71.4. However, he was sixth in the league in average seconds per touch at 5.72. Paul was thirteenth in the league in average dribbles per touch at 5.10. In 2016-2017, Paul was up at sixth in the 
league in touches per game at 86.1. He was fourteenth in the league in average seconds per touch at 5.32, and seventeenth in average dribbles per touch at 4.92. So, he made a massive sacrifice in his total number of touches per game but is dribbling and holding onto the ball longer; those latter two figures are a factor of Houston's isolation-heavy scheme as contrasted against the Clippers' offense.
La bohème is based on Henri Murger's novel, Scènes de la vie de bohème, a collection of vignettes portraying young bohemians living in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840s. Although usually called a novel, it has no unified plot. Like the 1849 play by Murger and 
Théodore Barrière, the opera's libretto focuses on the relationship between Rodolfo and Mimì, ending with her death. Also like the play, the libretto combines two characters from the novel, Mimì and Francine, into the single character of Mimì. Early in the composition stage Puccini was in dispute with the composer Leoncavallo, who said that he had offered Puccini a completed libretto and felt that Puccini should defer to him. Puccini responded that he had had no idea of Leoncavallo's interest and that having been working on his own version for some time, he felt that he could not oblige him by discontinuing with the opera. Leoncavallo completed his own version in which Marcello was sung by a tenor and Rodolfo by a baritone. It was unsuccessful and is now rarely performed.
