{"id":588813,"date":"2026-02-07T18:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/588813\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T18:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:25:14","slug":"is-james-harden-playing-tonight-after-trade-cavs-vs-kings-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/588813\/","title":{"rendered":"Is James Harden playing tonight after trade? Cavs vs. Kings injury report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/cleveland-cavaliers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> and Sacramento Kings will go head-to-head on Saturday night. Of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/los-angeles-clippers\/clippers-news-la-finalizing-james-harden-trade-for-darius-garland-with-cavs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Harden was recently traded to the Cavs<\/a>, so is the star veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/cleveland-cavaliers\/cavs-news-james-harden-expected-cleveland-debut-trade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">making his Cleveland debut<\/a> tonight?<\/p>\n<p>Harden is listed on the injury report as \u201ctrade pending\u201d ahead of Saturday night&#8217;s matchup. Here&#8217;s everything we know about his status heading into tonight&#8217;s game vs. the Kings.<\/p>\n<p>Watch NBA games LIVE with fuboTV (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fubo.tv\/lp\/nba\/?irad=356361&amp;irmp=492408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored noopener sponsored nofollow\">Get Access | Save $30<\/a>)*<\/p>\n<p>James Harden&#8217;s playing status vs. Kings<\/p>\n<p>Harden is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/ak-static.cms.nba.com\/referee\/injury\/Injury-Report_2026-02-07_11_30AM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">listed as questionable<\/a> to play on Saturday night, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/injuries\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA injury<\/a> report.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavs will enter play with a 31-21 record, which is good for fourth place in the Eastern Conference standings. Meanwhile, the Kings are 12-41 and in last place in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland should be able to get the job done on Saturday, but nothing is guaranteed. The Cavs would surely love to have Harden available for the game. When it comes to the question of if James Harden is playing tonight, however, the answer is uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>Cavs&#8217; injury report<\/p>\n<p>The Cavs have five players listed on the injury report.<\/p>\n<p>James Harden (trade pending): Questionable<br \/>\nDean Wade (left ankle sprain): Questionable<br \/>\nEvan Mobley (left calf strain): Out<br \/>\nMax Strus (left foot surgery jones fracture): Out<br \/>\nEmmanuel Miller (G League two-way): Out<\/p>\n<p>The Kings were defeated 114-111 on Friday night to the Los Angeles Clippers. Since Sacramento played on Friday night, Saturday&#8217;s game represents the second of a back-to-back. As a result, they have not released their injury report as of this story&#8217;s writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Cavaliers and Sacramento Kings will go head-to-head on Saturday night. Of course, James Harden was recently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,306,305,193,3846,560,6,14502],"class_list":{"0":"post-588813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cavaliers","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","13":"tag-james-harden","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-injury"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116030755521578664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588813","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=588813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}