{"id":504225,"date":"2026-02-28T01:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504225\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T01:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:20:08","slug":"james-harden-sits-out-cleveland-cavaliers-game-at-piston-after-fracturing-thumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504225\/","title":{"rendered":"James Harden sits out Cleveland Cavaliers&#8217; game at Piston after fracturing thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DETROIT (AP) \u2014 <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> sat out 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>\u2019 game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/detroit-pistons\/8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/detroit-pistons\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> on Friday night as he recovers from a fractured right thumb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Harden was injured Tuesday against New York. He\u2019s averaging 18.9 points in seven games for the Cavaliers following a trade with 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>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cleveland also was without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/donovan-mitchell\/879707\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/donovan-mitchell\/879707\" target=\"_blank\">Donovan Mitchell<\/a>. He strained his groin against the Knicks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (AP) \u2014 James Harden sat out the Cleveland Cavaliers\u2019 game against the Detroit Pistons on Friday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-504225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504225","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=504225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}