{"id":466100,"date":"2026-02-08T08:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/466100\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T08:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:41:15","slug":"harden-scores-23-in-cavaliers-debut-mitchell-leads-with-35-in-132-126-win-over-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/466100\/","title":{"rendered":"Harden scores 23 in Cavaliers debut, Mitchell leads with 35 in 132-126 win over Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SACRAMENTO, Calif. &#8212; James Harden scored 23 points in his Cavaliers debut and Donovan Mitchell had 35 to lead Cleveland to a 132-126 victory over Sacramento on Saturday night, sending the Kings to their 12th straight loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Harden was acquired by Cleveland from the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday for Darius Garland and a second-round draft pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Jarrett Allen had 29 points and 10 rebounds for the Cavaliers, who won for the eighth time in nine games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Nique Clifford scored 30 points to lead Sacramento, which hasn\u2019t won since beating Washington at home on Jan. 16. The Kings have lost six straight at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Cavaliers: At Denver on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Kings: At New Orleans on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">AP NBA: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. &#8212; James Harden scored 23 points in his Cavaliers debut and Donovan Mitchell had 35 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[238435,4225,64,63,590,31647,85],"class_list":["post-466100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-238435","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466100","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=466100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}