Sports Illustrated reported<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\nA potential Harden swap would net the Clippers Darius Garland in return, the outlet added.<\/p>\n
The Clippers are reportedly in talks with the Cavaliers about sending James Harden to Cleveland. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Harden did not play in Los Angeles\u2019 home game against the Sixers on Monday night after head coach Ty Lue said the point guard was \u201chome in Phoenix\u201d due to \u201cpersonal reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n
James Harden has missed the Clippers\u2019 last two games, including Monday night\u2019s matchup with the 76ers. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Harden also missed the Clippers\u2019 Sunday matchup against the Suns.<\/p>\n
The 11-time All-Star joined the Clippers in 2023 in a trade from the 76ers.<\/p>\n
In his two-plus seasons with the team, he\u2019s averaged 21.1 points, 8.5 assists and 5.3 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n
Harden\u2019s played for five total teams \u2014 the Thunder, Rockets, Nets, Sixers and Clippers\u00a0\u2014 in his 17 years in the NBA.<\/p>\n
Cavaliers guard Darius Garland has missed time this season because of a toe injury. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Garland, meanwhile, has played his entire career in Cleveland after he was taken with the No. 5 overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft.\u00a0He\u2019s made two All-Star teams. <\/p>\n
He, though, has been limited to 26 games this season while dealing with a toe injury.<\/p>\n
The NBA\u2019s trade deadline<\/a> is 12 p.m. PT on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Harden appears to be on the doorstep of wearing yet another NBA jersey. The Clippers are in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,160,306,305,193,3846,560,251,135,6,2828,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-579025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-cavaliers","11":"tag-cleveland","12":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","13":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","14":"tag-james-harden","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-nba-trade-deadline","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116005393359804468","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}