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Social media has laugh over James Harden's choice of mask

Rockets star James Harden practiced at the NBA's restart campus for the first time Thursday, but it was his choice of mask as he walked around the NBA Bubble that had him trending on Twitter.

The Rockets tweeted out a photo of Harden wearing a mask that the team captioned "Mask Up." The face covering appears to feature the "Thin Blue Line" and a Punisher skull. The "Thin Blue Line" often is seen as being in opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement and the Punisher skull often is associated with far-right groups.

There's almost no chance Harden looked at the mask as anything more than a cool design.