{"id":625190,"date":"2026-02-26T02:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/625190\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T02:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:40:38","slug":"james-harden-out-for-the-cavaliers-against-the-bucks-after-breaking-right-thumb-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/625190\/","title":{"rendered":"James Harden out for the Cavaliers against the Bucks after breaking right thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE \u2014 James Harden sat out the Cleveland Cavaliers&#8217; game against the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night because of a broken right thumb.<\/p>\n<p>Harden was injured Tuesday night in a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/knicks-cavaliers-score-b23ec2f2303771609b741878db8b7c25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">109-94 home victory over New York<\/a>. X-rays Wednesday showed a non-displaced fracture of the distal phalanx.<\/p>\n<p>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>Cleveland also was without two other starters. Donovan Mitchell is out with a right groin strain and Evan Mobley is inactive due to left calf injury management.<\/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":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 James Harden sat out the Cleveland Cavaliers&#8217; game against the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,2655,306,2654,305,193,3846,5238,2657,2656,71,6,67,1217,2659,66,2658,2652,422,2653],"class_list":["post-625190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-basketball","tag-cars","tag-cavaliers","tag-classifieds","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-clevelandcavaliers","tag-health","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116134623788427011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625190","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=625190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}