{"id":510864,"date":"2026-08-20T19:27:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=510864"},"modified":"2026-08-20T19:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:27:26","slug":"james-harden-cavaliers-agree-to-three-year-97-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/james-harden-cavaliers-agree-to-three-year-97-million-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"James Harden, Cavaliers Agree to Three-Year, $97 Million Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Harden and the Cleveland Cavaliers have agreed to a three-year contract worth approximately $97 million, including a player option for the final season and a 15% trade kicker.<\/p>\n<p>The news was first reported by Shams Charania, while <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/2090486175362396518\">Michael Scotto<\/a> revealed the details of the trade kicker and added that the deal is fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>With the new contract, Harden will become the fourth player in NBA history to surpass $500 million in career earnings from contracts signed, joining Stephen Curry, LeBron James and Kevin Durant.<\/p>\n<p>The 11-time All-Star worked with Cleveland&#8217;s front office to facilitate <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-peyton-watson-to-the-cavaliers-and-max-strus-to-the-clippers-four-team-trade\/\">the sign-and-trade<\/a> that will also bring Peyton Watson to Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: James Harden has agreed to a new three-year, $97 million contract to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers, with a player option and a trade kicker, agents Mike Silverman, Troy Payne and Brandon Grier of Equity Sports told ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b9jnBykly8\">pic.twitter.com\/b9jnBykly8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2090484012343026166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the new contract, Harden will become the fourth player in NBA history to surpass $500 million in career earnings  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":484780,"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-510864","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\/02\/james-harden-jarrett-allen-cavs.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510864","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510864"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=510864"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=510864"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=510864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}