{"id":291899,"date":"2025-11-18T05:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T05:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/291899\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T05:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T05:17:08","slug":"lebron-james-practices-with-lakers-has-yet-to-decide-if-he-will-return-to-court-tuesday-vs-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/291899\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James practices with Lakers, has yet to decide if he will return to court Tuesday vs. Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James went through his first full practice with the Lakers, coming off<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2025\/11\/12\/lebron-james-practices-with-lakers-south-bay-g-league-affiliate-he-looked-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> a couple of practices<\/a> with the franchise\u2019s G-League team, but his status for the Lakers\u2019 game Tuesday against the Utah Jazz remains \u201cTBD,\u201d as Lakers coach J.J. Redick put it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust trying to get back to where I feel like myself again,\u201d LeBron said after practice, via the Associated Press. \u201cGot to see how the body responds over the next 24 hours-plus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officially, LeBron is questionable for Tuesday night\u2019s game against the Jazz, which is usually how players coming off an injury are listed the day before (and of) their return. Tuesday\u2019s game is the front end of a home-and-home with Utah, this one played at Crypto.com Arena. After that, the Lakers are off until Sunday, when they face the Jazz in Salt Lake City, before returning home to face the Clippers in a critical West Group B NBA Cup game, which you can watch on Nov. 25 on NBC and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nba\/news\/Peacock NBA Monday\u00a0will stream up to three Monday night games each week throughout the regular season. Coast 2 Coast Tuesday presents doubleheaders on Tuesday nights throughout the regular season on NBC and\u00a0Peacock. On most Tuesdays, an 8 p.m. ET game will be on NBC stations in the Eastern and Central time zones, and an 8 p.m. PT game on NBC stations in the Pacific and often Mountain time zones. Check local listings each week. Both games will\u00a0stream live nationwide on Peacock. NBC Sports will launch Sunday Night Basketball across NBC and Peacock on Feb. 1, 2026. For a full schedule of the NBA on NBC and Peacock,\u00a0click here.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Peacock<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>LeBron said he\u2019s feeling good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy lungs feel like a newborn baby,\u201d LeBron said. \u201cThat\u2019s the most important thing: I\u2019ve got to get my lungs back up to a grown man. My voice is already gone (from) one day back barking out calls and assignments and stuff. Got to get my voice working again. Be a lot of tea and rest tonight. Feels good to be out here with the guys. Missed them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LeBron missed all of training camp as well as the first 14 games of the season due to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nba\/news\/lebron-james-out-at-least-3-4-weeks-with-sciatica-on-his-right-side-will-miss-opening-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">sciatica on his right side<\/a>. This started back in August, and from the first days, the plan has been for him to take his time and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nba\/news\/lakers-reportedly-targeting-mid-november-return-for-lebron-james\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">return to the court in mid-November. This week <\/a>fits that timeline. <\/p>\n<p>Whenever he does set foot on an NBA court this season, LeBron will set a record as the first player ever to reach 23 seasons in the league. Even without LeBron, the Lakers are 10-4 to start the season, led by a top-10 offense sparked by Luka Doncic playing at an MVP level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James went through his first full practice with the Lakers, coming off a couple of practices with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-291899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291899","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=291899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}