{"id":820263,"date":"2026-08-20T20:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820263\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:46:13","slug":"james-harden-agrees-to-three-year-97m-cleveland-cavaliers-deal-report-basketball-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820263\/","title":{"rendered":"James Harden agrees to three-year, $97m Cleveland Cavaliers deal: Report | Basketball News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harden, who is about to turn 37, previously declined a $42.3m player \u2060option on his contract in bid to secure a multi-year deal.<\/p>\n

Published On 20 Aug 202620 Aug 2026<\/p>\n

Former NBA MVP \u200cand 11-time All-Star guard James \u2060Harden<\/a> \u2060has agreed to a new three-year, $97m contract to return to the Cleveland \u2060Cavaliers, his agents told ESPN on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Per his agents at Equity Sports, \u2060the deal includes a player option for the 2028-29 US basketball season and a trade kicker.<\/p>\n

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Harden\u2019s new deal comes one day after \u200cthe Cavaliers reportedly acquired fellow guard Peyton Watson from the Denver Nuggets in a trade that also included the Los Angeles Clippers.<\/p>\n

Harden, who turns 37 next Wednesday, declined a $42.3m player \u2060option on his contract earlier \u2060this summer in a bid to secure a multi-year deal.<\/p>\n

Cleveland acquired Harden from the Clippers at \u2060the February trade deadline and sent fellow All-Star guard \u2060Darius Garland to Los \u2060Angeles.<\/p>\n

Harden averaged 20.5 points and 7.7 assists in 26 regular-season games for the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n

He has averages of \u200c24.0 points, 5.6 rebounds and 7.3 assists in 1,221 regular- season appearances (1,007 starts) \u200cwith \u200cthe Oklahoma City Thunder (2009-12), Houston Rockets (2012-2021), Brooklyn Nets (2021-22), Philadelphia 76ers (2022-23), Clippers (2023-26) and Cavaliers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harden, who is about to turn 37, previously declined a $42.3m player \u2060option on his contract in bid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[402,355,3,1079,99,21,1209],"class_list":["post-820263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}