According to Harris County records, Harden is accused of carrying an unconcealed\u00a0weapon in a vehicle.<\/p>\n
Harden, 36,\u00a0was driving a Mercedes that was among a group of five vehicles traveling through downtown at about 3:40 a.m. When one of the vehicles was stopped by police near 1600 Jefferson, Harden drove up behind in a Mercedes sedan, according to court records.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During an interaction with police, according to court records, the officer saw a gun in the cup holder of the car Harden was driving. Harden told police it was his, according to court records, and was arrested and booked at Harris County Jail.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was released on a general order bond a short time later with the promise that he’ll appear in court on June 22.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Chronicle has reached out to the player’s agent, Troy Payne, for comment.<\/p>\n
The 16-year NBA veteran played with the Rockets from 2012 to 2021. He played for the Cleveland Cavaliers this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Harris County records, Harden is accused of carrying an unconcealed\u00a0weapon in a vehicle. Harden, 36,\u00a0was driving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,113606],"class_list":["post-335604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-tsn-rockets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}