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Dave McMenaminMar 11, 2026, 12:35 PM<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Multiple Authors<\/p>\n LOS ANGELES — Lakers<\/a> star LeBron James<\/a> remained out for Tuesday night’s 120-106 win<\/a> over the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> because of left foot arthritis and a right hip contusion.<\/p>\n James went through his pregame shooting routine at Crypto.com Arena prior to the Lakers’ team walk-through and determined he needed more time to get treatment on his left foot before playing in a game, coach JJ Redick said.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks It was James’ third straight missed game, the longest stretch the 23-year veteran has been out since he was sidelined the first 14 games of the season with sciatica in his lower back and down his right leg.<\/p>\n Redick said James is considered day to day going forward. The Lakers’ next game is Thursday at home against the Chicago Bulls<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rui Hachimura<\/a> started in James’ place for the Lakers, who also were without both of their backup big men against Minnesota, as Maxi Kleber<\/a> (lumbar back strain) and Jaxson Hayes<\/a> (back soreness) were late scratches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave McMenaminMar 11, 2026, 12:35 PM CloseLakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-532751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532751","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=532751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCovered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r1611561_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
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