{"id":22828,"date":"2025-10-10T12:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=22828"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:04:03","slug":"lakers-james-to-miss-nba-season-opener-with-sciatica-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=22828","title":{"rendered":"Lakers&#8217; James to miss NBA season-opener with sciatica: reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Los Angeles superstar LeBron James is set to miss the Lakers&#8217; NBA season-opener after the team said he will be sidelined three to four weeks with sciatica, multiple US media outlets reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers revealed the diagnosis of right-side sciatica after the team&#8217;s practice, where the 40-year-old James again was not a full participant.<\/p>\n<p>He missed the Lakers&#8217; first two pre-season games with what Lakers coach JJ Redick called nerve irritation in his glute.<\/p>\n<p>Sciatica is pain or numbness that follows the path of the sciatic nerve from the lower back down the leg.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers said James would be reevaluated in about three to four weeks and further updates would be provided at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Redick said Thursday that James and Luka Doncic were limited to &#8220;modified, mostly individual work&#8221; at practice.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers open their season against the Golden State Warriors on October 21.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN had reported on Tuesday that James would likely miss all of the pre-season but had hoped to be ready for opening night.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time NBA champion and all-time points scorer told reporters on media day last month that he was &#8220;excited&#8221; by the prospect of becoming the first player in NBA history to play a 23rd season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever the journey lays out this year, I&#8217;m super-invested because I don&#8217;t know when the end is. It&#8217;s a lot sooner than later,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles superstar LeBron James is set to miss the Lakers&#8217; NBA season-opener after the team said he will be sidelined three to four weeks with sciatica, multiple US media outlets reported Thursday. The Lakers revealed the diagnosis of right-side sciatica after the team&#8217;s practice, where the 40-year-old James again was not a full participant. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}