James Harden has agreed to a three-year, $97 cardinal contract to stay with the Cleveland Cavaliers, giving the seasoned defender a semipermanent committedness with the squad aft joining Cleveland astatine the commercialized deadline past season. The agreement, confirmed Thursday by Harden’s agents astatine Equity Sports, includes a subordinate enactment for the 2028-29 play and a commercialized kicker. The declaration is afloat guaranteed, according to aggregate reports.
Harden, an 11-time All-Star and the 2018 NBA MVP, declined a $42.3 cardinal subordinate enactment earlier this summertime portion seeking a multiyear agreement. He arrived successful Cleveland successful February from the Los Angeles Clippers arsenic portion of the commercialized that sent All-Star defender Darius Garland to Los Angeles. Harden appeared successful 26 regular-season games for the Cavaliers, averaging 20.5 points and 7.7 assists. Across 70 games with the Clippers and Cavaliers past season, helium averaged 23.6 points, 8 assists and 4.8 rebounds.
Harden, who turns 37 adjacent week, volition stay alongside All-Star defender Donovan Mitchell, who agreed to a four-year, $273 cardinal hold with Cleveland past month. Harden’s caller woody volition rise his vocation net to astir $511 million, according to ESPN, making him the 4th subordinate successful NBA past to surpass $500 cardinal successful vocation salary, joining LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry.
The new contract comes arsenic Cleveland continues reshaping a roster that reached the Eastern Conference finals past play earlier being swept by the eventual champion New York Knicks. The Cavaliers besides precocious acquired guardant Peyton Watson from the Denver Nuggets successful a multiteam trade, adding different important portion arsenic they effort to stay among the East’s contenders.
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