LeBron James to Miss Opening of NBA Season with Sciatic Issues.
James began his professional journey with the Cavaliers in 2003.
James is sidelined for around four weeks and is confirmed to miss the start of the league campaign because of sciatica, LA Lakers have confirmed.
LeBron James, forty, signed a new contract with the LA team in June and will become the initial competitor to participate across 23 individual campaigns.
Sciatica refers to discomfort in the nerve that extends through the spine and down the leg.
LeBron James has not taken part in pre-season and was out for the losses against the Warriors and the Phoenix this month as a result of the sciatic problem.
The veteran is expected to be sidelined for each of the five of the team's games in the month of October, which includes the season-opener against Golden State.
LeBron James, the league's top scorer, has never previously missed the beginning of the season in his 22-year career.
His tally of one thousand five hundred sixty-two matches participated in is only 50 away than overtaking former Boston Celtics star Parish's NBA record.
The four-time NBA champion featured in seventy of the LA Lakers' eighty-two games last season and played on 71 occasions in the year before.
In the most recent campaign, the player averaged 24.4 points per game, 8.2 assists and nearly 8 rebounds per game and finished sixth in the MVP vote.
Los Angeles Lakers qualified for the playoffs in 2024-25 but fell 4-1 against the Minnesota in the first round.
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