At the very least, paparazzi veteran James Harden made a rookie mistake. At most, he may have given "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" a season's worth of new material.

The Rockets star was spotted at a New York City restaurant -- the man obviously loves to travel as he's been to Hawaii, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Houston and allegedly Australia during the NBA offseason -- sitting next to a woman identified as someone other than girlfriend Khloe Kardashian, Terez Owens reports.

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The website posted a tweet from Samantha Beaulieu, who spotted Harden in a red hoodie sitting next to a woman wearing Converse high tops (alert Adidas).

While the photo itself doesn't reveal any sort of betrayal on the part of Harden toward Kardashian, the reality TV star, it did raise the issue of whether Kardashian knew Harden was at a New York restaurant with another woman.

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Harden wasn't even paying attention to the woman as he appeared to be looking at his phone, but the woman was sitting next to him, rather than across from him.

A couple of weeks after Harden and Kardashian hooked up during a secret rendezvous in Hawaii in June, an Australian college student alleged that she spent the night with the basketball player after meeting him at a casino in Sydney.

Harden certainly has had ample time to figure out that paparazzi could always be present because of his romantic connection to Kardashian.

Recent reports have said that the couple's romance is zooming along; both want kids and Harden has told friends that he thinks Kardashian is the one for him.

For him to take a misstep at this stage of their courtship would be folly.

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