{"id":625166,"date":"2026-02-26T02:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/625166\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T02:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:18:22","slug":"james-harden-out-for-the-cavaliers-against-the-bucks-after-breaking-right-thumb-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/625166\/","title":{"rendered":"James Harden out for the Cavaliers against the Bucks after breaking right thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/james-harden-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Harden<\/a> sat out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/cleveland-cavaliers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>&#8216; game against the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night because of a broken right thumb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Harden was injured Tuesday night in a 109-94 home victory over New York. X-rays Wednesday showed a non-displaced fracture of the distal phalanx.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Harden will undergo treatment and evaluation. The 17-year veteran was traded by the Los Angeles Clippers to Cleveland on Feb. 4. He averaged 18.9 points, 4.6 rebounds and eight assists in his seven games with the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Cleveland also was without two other starters. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/donovan-mitchell-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donovan Mitchell<\/a> is out with a right groin strain and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/evan-mobley-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Mobley<\/a> is inactive due to left calf injury management. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 James Harden sat out the Cleveland Cavaliers&#8216; game against the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,193,559,864,576,560,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,1407,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-625166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-clippers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","10":"tag-clippers","11":"tag-donovan-mitchell","12":"tag-evan-mobley","13":"tag-james-harden","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-la-clippers","16":"tag-laclippers","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","19":"tag-losangeles","20":"tag-losangelesclippers","21":"tag-national-basketball-association","22":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116134538111514665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625166","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=625166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}