{"id":216869,"date":"2025-10-16T03:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/216869\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:58:07","slug":"report-lebron-targeting-mid-november-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/216869\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: LeBron targeting mid-November return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James is targeting a mid-November return after experiencing sciatica on his right side, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1978650970843124004\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>James is taking a patient approach with his rehab and will require at least a few weeks to ramp up his conditioning, adds Charania.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/news\/3364535\" href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/news\/3364535\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">initially<\/a> ruled out James for at least three-to-four weeks last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>James sustained the injury during an on-court workout in late July, according to Charania.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time Finals MVP hasn&#8217;t participated in any team practices or preseason games.<\/p>\n<p>James continued to perform at a high level in his age-40 season, averaging 24.4 points, 8.2 assists, 7.8 rebounds, and one steal across 70 contests last year.<\/p>\n<p>While he&#8217;s been durable throughout most of his career, the 21-time All-Star has made 70 appearances or more in only two of his last seven campaigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James is targeting a mid-November return after experiencing sciatica on his right side,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-216869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}