{"id":452357,"date":"2026-02-04T01:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/452357\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T01:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:55:09","slug":"los-angeles-clippers-send-james-harden-to-cleveland-cavaliers-for-darius-garland-in-blockbuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/452357\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Clippers send James Harden to Cleveland Cavaliers for Darius Garland in blockbuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/los-angeles-clippers\/12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/los-angeles-clippers\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> are trading point guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/james-harden\/395388\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/james-harden\/395388\" target=\"_blank\">James Harden<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/cleveland-cavaliers\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/cleveland-cavaliers\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> in exchange for point guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/darius-garland-358181\/1134262\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/darius-garland-358181\/1134262\" target=\"_blank\">Darius Garland<\/a> and a second-round pick, according to ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">News of a possible trade involving Harden was reported by Charania and others late Monday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Harden is having a resurgent season at 37-years-old, averaging 25.2 points and 8.1 assists per game in 44 games this season. This is now the fifth time in Harden\u2019s career that he has been traded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Garland, who has been with the Cavs for seven seasons, is averaging 18.0 points and 6.9 assists in 26 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Clippers are trading point guard James Harden to the Cleveland Cavaliers in exchange for point&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[712,49,48,122281,186016,185674,75911,459,82],"class_list":["post-452357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cleveland-cavaliers-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-5","tag-darius-garland-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-1134262","tag-james-harden-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-395388","tag-los-angeles-clippers-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-12","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}