LeBron James Will Miss Start of NBA Season due to Sciatic Nerve Pain.
James started his NBA path with the Cavaliers in the year 2003.
The Lakers superstar is sidelined for around four weeks and is set to miss the start of the NBA season because of sciatic issues, Lakers stated.
The player, forty, signed a new contract with the Los Angeles Lakers in June of this year and is set to become the initial competitor to compete across 23 individual campaigns.
Sciatica involves pain in the sciatic nerve that goes down the lower back and down the leg.
LeBron James was absent in exhibition games and was out for the defeats against the Warriors and the Phoenix earlier this month due to the glute nerve irritation.
James will likely miss for all five of the team's games in October, featuring the first game against the Warriors.
James, the highest points scorer in history, has always been present for the opening of the season in his two-decade-plus career.
The number of 1,562 matches participated in is only 50 away than surpassing former Boston star Robert Parish's league record.
The four-time NBA champion appeared in seventy of the LA Lakers' eighty-two games last term and was active for 71 matches in the year before.
The previous season, James posted 24.4 points per game, more than 8 assists and nearly 8 rebounds per game and placed sixth in the MVP vote.
The Lakers reached the play-offs in the 2024-25 season but lost in five games against the Minnesota in the initial stage.
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