{"id":510107,"date":"2026-08-15T10:04:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T08:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=510107"},"modified":"2026-08-15T10:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T08:04:41","slug":"cavaliers-remain-in-constant-contact-with-james-harden-pursue-watson-and-kuminga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cavaliers-remain-in-constant-contact-with-james-harden-pursue-watson-and-kuminga\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers remain in constant contact with James Harden, pursue Watson and Kuminga"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-section-id=\"hpm9ql\" data-start=\"1779\" data-end=\"1811\"><span role=\"text\"><strong data-start=\"1782\" data-end=\"1811\">Harden remains a priority<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"1813\" data-end=\"2020\">According to Shams Charania, the Cavaliers are maintaining <strong data-start=\"1872\" data-end=\"1931\">constant communication with James Harden and his agents<\/strong> as they work toward a new contract that would bring the veteran guard back to Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2022\" data-end=\"2147\">Harden&#8217;s situation is closely connected to Cleveland&#8217;s other offseason moves as the franchise continues reshaping its roster.<\/p>\n<h2 data-section-id=\"19vtt9f\" data-start=\"2149\" data-end=\"2193\"><span role=\"text\"><strong data-start=\"2152\" data-end=\"2193\">Cleveland pursuing Watson and Kuminga<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"2195\" data-end=\"2371\">At the same time, the Cavaliers are aggressively pursuing <strong data-start=\"2253\" data-end=\"2270\">Peyton Watson<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2275\" data-end=\"2295\">Jonathan Kuminga<\/strong>, two wing options who could address one of the team&#8217;s biggest roster needs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2373\" data-end=\"2558\">Watson is a restricted free agent, while Kuminga is unrestricted. Cleveland has already explored a potential sign-and-trade for Watson with Denver.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2560\" data-end=\"2794\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cavaliers-trade-dennis-schroder-to-hornets-for-tre-mann\/\">The Cavaliers&#8217; trade sending Dennis Schr\u00f6der and cash to Charlotte for Tre Mann<\/a> also created additional financial and roster flexibility, while allowing Cleveland to avoid giving up draft capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland remains in constant communication with James Harden and his representatives over a potential new deal, while also strongly pursuing restricted free agent Peyton Watson and unrestricted free agent Jonathan Kuminga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":510106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-510107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/James-Harden-FIBA.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510107"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=510107"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=510107"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=510107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}