James Harden is “Winning at Hoops” While Throwing Back Trolli Candy

We’d like to throw it back to that one time James Harden played defense, but that never happened. So we’ll just throw it back to these strange “Winning at Hoops” spots from Periscope that the Houston Rockets shooting guard starred in for candy brand Trolli.

The spots are sports instructional videos circa 1980 where a basketball coach tells viewers about the basketball shots James Harden is about to demonstrate in each video: “Lay-up”, “Slam Dunk”, and “Hook Shot.” Periscope is always upping the weird factor, and with direction from SOCIETY’s David Viau, these spots are definitely strange. In each ad Harden pulls out a secret stash of Trolli Sour Brite Crawlers in mid-air, whether from inside the basketball or his ever-growing beard, as seen in the slo-mo recap of each move—an essential piece of a retro instructional video.