James Set to Miss Beginning of National Basketball Association Campaign with Sciatic Issues.
The veteran player commenced his NBA path with the Cavaliers in the year 2003.
LeBron James will be absent for up to four weeks and is confirmed to miss the beginning of the NBA season due to sciatic nerve pain, LA Lakers have confirmed.
The player, 40, agreed to a new agreement with the LA team in the month of June and will become the first athlete to play across 23 individual campaigns.
Sciatic pain is a pain in the sciatic nerve that extends through the back and down the leg.
LeBron James did not participate in preseason and did not play in the losses against the Warriors and the Phoenix earlier this month because of the nerve issue.
The American is expected to be sidelined for every one of the five of the LA Lakers' games in the month of October, including the opening match against Golden State.
LeBron James, the highest points scorer in history, has never previously missed the start of the season in his 22-season tenure.
The number of over 1,500 matches participated in is merely 50 less than breaking former Boston star Parish's league record.
The four-time NBA champion played in 70 of the team's 82 games last term and played on 71 occasions in the year before.
In the most recent campaign, the player averaged over 24 points, 8.2 assists and 7.8 rebounds per game and placed sixth in the MVP award vote.
LA made it to the playoffs in 2024-25 but lost 4-1 against the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round.
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