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Houston Rockets guard James Harden should be available Saturday with negative COVID-19 tests, sources say

Houston Rockets star James Harden will be required to isolate until Friday and continue to test negative for the coronavirus before being cleared to return to play, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.

Harden should be available to play against the Portland Trail Blazers on Saturday.

Harden was fined $50,000 by the NBA and was ruled "unavailable" for Wednesday's game against the Oklahoma City Thunder due to a violation of the league's COVID-19 protocols after the league reviewed video of him socializing maskless at a club earlier this week.

Because the Rockets didn't have the league-required eight available players needed to proceed with the game, the game against the Thunder was postponed.