Nov 10, 2025, 06:44 PM ET<\/p>\n
LeBron James<\/a> is on track to practice with the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>‘ G League affiliate, the South Bay Lakers, later this week as he ramps up for a return from sciatica on his right side, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n The Lakers are in Charlotte for a game against the Hornets, the first in a four-game road trip. The team doesn’t return home until Tuesday, Nov. 18 when they host the Utah Jazz<\/a>.<\/p>\n James, 40, has yet to play this season due to the sciatica, which involves symptoms of of irritation, inflammation or compression of the sciatic nerve. The Lakers have not announced a definitive timeline for his return.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Lakers got back Austin Reaves<\/a> from a three-game absence due to a right groin strain. He was in the starting lineup for Monday’s game as L.A. looks to bounce back from a blowout loss to the Atlanta Hawks<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n Reaves, 27, is in the midst of a breakout campaign, averaging 31.1 points and 9.3 assists in seven games so far this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 10, 2025, 06:44 PM ET LeBron James is on track to practice with the Los Angeles Lakers‘…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-275253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}