{"id":394609,"date":"2026-01-06T04:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/394609\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T04:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:49:07","slug":"james-harden-out-for-clippers-vs-warriors-with-shoulder-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/394609\/","title":{"rendered":"James Harden out for Clippers vs. Warriors with shoulder issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INGLEWOOD, Calif. &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"35b0f455-b1df-0986-121d-27d2b6c18122\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3992\/james-harden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Harden<\/a> sat out for the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"083a58a6-b849-3501-e67b-059290d12295\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lac\/la-clippers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LA Clippers<\/a> against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/gs\/golden-state-warriors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old guard had stiffness in his right shoulder and went through warmups before being ruled out. It is just the third game he has missed this season.<\/p>\n<p>Harden is averaging 25.7 points &#8212; his most since 2019-20, when he led the NBA in scoring. He is seventh in the league with 8.0 assists per game and tied for 10th in minutes with 35.4.<\/p>\n<p>Harden played major minutes when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/6450\/kawhi-leonard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kawhi Leonard<\/a> missed 10 games in November with a sprained ankle and foot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think definitely, just body fatigue, all the things he had to do as far as carrying the offense when Kawhi was out,&#8221; coach Tyronn Lue said before the game. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t really have a secondary scorer. He had to do a lot for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD, Calif. &#8212; James Harden sat out for the LA Clippers against the Golden State Warriors on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-394609","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\/394609","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=394609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}