{"id":268599,"date":"2025-11-07T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/268599\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:34:09","slug":"clippers-james-harden-out-vs-suns-due-to-personal-reasons-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/268599\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers&#8217; James Harden out vs. Suns due to personal reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"083a58a6-b849-3501-e67b-059290d12295\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lac\/la-clippers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LA Clippers<\/a> guard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3992\/james-harden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Harden<\/a> missed Thursday night&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/nba\/boxscore\/_\/gameId\/401810037\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">115-102 loss<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/phx\/phoenix-suns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> for personal reasons, the team said.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first game he has missed this season. The 11-time All-Star scored 25 points on Tuesday in the Clippers&#8217; loss to defending NBA champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/okc\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers were already without forward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/6450\/kawhi-leonard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kawhi Leonard<\/a>, who is recovering from a sprained right ankle.<\/p>\n<p>Former Phoenix guard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/6580\/bradley-beal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bradley Beal<\/a> returned to action for the Clippers, though he was on a minutes restriction, according to coach Tyronn Lue. Beal has been recovering from offseason back surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Beal played two seasons in Phoenix but was frequently sidelined by injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Suns guard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4437244\/jalen-green\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Green<\/a>, who has been sidelined with a right hamstring strain, made his season debut on Thursday. Green was acquired in the offseason from Houston in a seven-team trade that sent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3202\/kevin-durant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Durant<\/a> to the Rockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA Clippers guard James Harden missed Thursday night&#8217;s 115-102 loss to the Phoenix Suns for personal reasons, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-268599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}