James Harden may need a new pair of shorts.
The Houston Rockets star went down hard to the floor in Saturday night’s 111-110 overtime win over the Boston Celtics, and in doing so appeared to reveal a mysterious stain on the back of his white shorts. Still images of the unidentified stain soon found their way to social media amid speculation that Harden may have had a bit of an accident on the court.
The shot came from the end of the first half, when Harden drove for a layup attempt but was blocked and fell hard to the court. He remained on the ground for several seconds before raising his knees to help pull himself back up, revealing a faint stain on the back side of his shorts.
Pictures of the stained shorts spread quickly around Twitter and made their way to the top of Reddit, where there was plenty of theories about how it could have been created.