{"id":361160,"date":"2025-11-07T02:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/361160\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T02:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:16:11","slug":"james-harden-misses-clippers-game-against-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/361160\/","title":{"rendered":"James Harden misses Clippers game against Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Clippers guard James Harden missed Thursday night&#8217;s game against the Phoenix Suns for personal reasons, the team said.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first game he has missed this season. The 11-time All-Star scored 25 points on Tuesday in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/thunder-clippers-score-e2f7959723293ade062e7319b848f64d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Clippers\u2019 loss to defending NBA champion Oklahoma City;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Clippers\u2019 loss to defending NBA champion Oklahoma City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers were already without forward Kawhi Leonard, who is recovering from a sprained right ankle.<\/p>\n<p>Former Phoenix guard Bradley Beal returned to action for the Clippers, though he was on a minutes restriction, according to coach Tyronn Lue. Beal has been recovering from offseason back surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Beal played two seasons in Phoenix but was frequently sidelined by injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Suns guard Jalen Green, who has been sidelined with a right hamstring strain, made his season debut on Thursday. Green was acquired in the offseason from Houston in a seven-team trade that sent Kevin Durant to the Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Clippers guard James Harden missed Thursday night&#8217;s game against the Phoenix Suns for personal reasons, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":361161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[7234,4345,7192,18169,3370,3359,3142,1260,175381,1721,5565,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-361160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-bradley-beal","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-jalen-green","11":"tag-james-harden","12":"tag-kawhi-leonard","13":"tag-kevin-durant","14":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-personal-reasons","17":"tag-phoenix-suns","18":"tag-rockets","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115506012832060361","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}