{"id":168969,"date":"2026-02-08T06:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/168969\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T06:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:36:14","slug":"nique-clifford-scores-30-but-kings-fall-to-cavaliers-132-126-in-james-hardens-cleveland-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/168969\/","title":{"rendered":"Nique Clifford scores 30 but Kings fall to Cavaliers 132-126 in James Harden&#8217;s Cleveland debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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>Harden was acquired by Cleveland from the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday for Darius Garland and a second-round draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>Jarrett Allen had 29 points and 10 rebounds for the Cavaliers, who won for the eighth time in nine games. <\/p>\n<p>Nique Clifford scored 30 points to lead Sacramento, which hasn&#8217;t won since beating Washington at home on Jan. 16. The Kings have lost six straight at home.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Cavaliers: At Denver on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Kings: At New Orleans on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Harden scored 23 points in his Cavaliers debut and Donovan Mitchell had 35 to lead Cleveland to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[67418,8695,716,129,121,123,128,122,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-168969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","9":"tag-james-harden","10":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sacramento","13":"tag-sacramento-headlines","14":"tag-sacramento-kings","15":"tag-sacramento-news","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}