Cleveland Cavaliers guard James Harden was arrested early Saturday morning in Houston and has been charged with a misdemeanor unlawful carrying of a weapon.<\/p>\n
According to Harris County court records, Harden was taken into custody at 3:41 a.m. when a handgun was observed on the seat of a car Harden owns. The gun was not holstered and was in plain view, per the records.<\/p>\n
Harden was booked at 4:57 a.m. and later released after paying a $100 bond. His arraignment is scheduled for June 22, according to the clerk’s office website. Harden is listed as a Houston resident in court documents.<\/p>\n
“The Cleveland Cavaliers are aware of the arrest of James Harden this morning and are in the process of gathering additional information,” the Cavaliers said in a statement. “We are in contact with James and his representation and will continue to monitor developments as they become available. At this time, we will have no further comment.”<\/p>\n
Representatives for Harden declined to comment.<\/p>\n
Harden is potentially going to be a free agent at the end of the month. He has a $42 million player option decision he must make by June 29 but only $13.3 million is guaranteed. It has been expected Harden would opt out of the contract and sign a new multiyear deal to remain in Cleveland, where he was traded in February.<\/p>\n
Harden, 36, averaged 19.2 points and 5.5 assists during the playoff run in helping the Cavaliers reach the Eastern Conference finals.<\/p>\n
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers guard James Harden was arrested early Saturday morning in Houston and has been charged with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,122281,185674,82],"class_list":["post-735642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cleveland-cavaliers-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-5","tag-james-harden-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-395388","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735642","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=735642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}