{"id":590204,"date":"2026-02-08T09:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/590204\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T09:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:11:22","slug":"harden-scores-23-in-cavaliers-debut-mitchell-leads-with-35-in-132-126-win-over-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/590204\/","title":{"rendered":"Harden scores 23 in Cavaliers debut, Mitchell leads with 35 in 132-126 win over Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 James Harden scored 23 points in his Cavaliers debut and Donovan Mitchell had 35, including a free throw that sealed the win with 35 seconds remaining, in Cleveland&#8217;s 132-126 victory over Sacramento on Saturday night that sent 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. He shot 7 for 13, including 5 for 8 from 3-point range, and had eight assists.<\/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. Russell Westbrook added 21 points and nine assists for the Kings, who have lost six straight at home.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavaliers went into halftime leading 57-55, but the Kings took the lead in the third quarter at 96-93. Mitchell scored 29 points of his points in the second half for the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<p>Cavaliers: At Denver on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Kings: At New Orleans on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 James Harden scored 23 points in his Cavaliers debut and Donovan Mitchell had 35, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,2655,306,2654,305,193,3846,2657,2656,71,6,67,1217,2659,66,2658,2652,422,2653],"class_list":{"0":"post-590204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cars","10":"tag-cavaliers","11":"tag-classifieds","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","14":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","15":"tag-homes","16":"tag-jobs","17":"tag-local","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-radio","21":"tag-salt-lake","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-television","24":"tag-traffic","25":"tag-utah","26":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116034239505425841","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590204","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=590204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}