{"id":634307,"date":"2026-03-02T11:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/634307\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T11:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:47:11","slug":"james-harden-helps-cavs-to-a-road-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/634307\/","title":{"rendered":"James Harden helps Cavs to a road win"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Still recovering from a broken thumb, James Harden made a successful return for the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday.<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

Harden had 22 points, nine rebounds and eight assists in Cleveland’s\u00a0106-102 victory<\/a>\u00a0at the Brooklyn Nets
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The 36-year-old Harden missed two games after\u00a0fracturing his right thumb<\/a>\u00a0during Tuesday night’s\u00a0109-94 win<\/a>\u00a0over the New York Knicks
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Harden made two foul shots and converted a four-point play to help the Cavs take a 70-64 lead with 4:40 left in the third quarter<\/p>\n

Harden had 22 points, nine rebounds and eight assists in Cleveland’s\u00a0106-102 victory<\/a>\u00a0at the Brooklyn Nets. The 11-time All-Star went 4 for 7 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old Harden missed two games after\u00a0fracturing his right thumb<\/a>\u00a0during Tuesday night’s\u00a0109-94 win<\/a>\u00a0over the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could see in the first half he’s not 100 percent, obviously,\u201d Cleveland coach Kenny Atkinson said. \u201cI thought in the second half though he had that stretch there where we were struggling, he kind of took over, got to the free-throw line, hit a couple 3s, so that was good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harden was acquired\u00a0in a trade<\/a>\u00a0with the Los Angeles Clippers on Feb. 3. The 17-year veteran is averaging 19.3 points, 8.0 assists and 5.1 rebounds in eight games with Cleveland.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-5 guard had eight points in the first half against Brooklyn, and the Nets led 52-46 at the break. But Cleveland rallied in the second half.<\/p>\n

Harden made two foul shots and converted a four-point play to help the Cavs take a 70-64 lead with 4:40 left in the third quarter.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe needed him tonight,\u201d Atkinson said. \u201cObviously playing handicapped, he still played really well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Still recovering from a broken thumb, James Harden made a successful return for the Cleveland Cavaliers on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1970,1977,2097,7,305,6,67,16,8424,29717,9881,8757,66,1974],"class_list":{"0":"post-634307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ohio","16":"tag-ohio-cleveland-cavaliers","17":"tag-ohio-cleveland-top-stories","18":"tag-ohio-roh-top-stories","19":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116159423718221177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634307","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=634307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}