{"id":214311,"date":"2026-03-11T04:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214311\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T04:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:44:09","slug":"lebron-james-will-not-play-against-minnesota-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214311\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James will not play against Minnesota tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LeBron James was downgraded to out with a right hip contusion and left foot arthritis for the Lakers<\/a>\u2019 game against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday night at Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n

James missed his third straight game with his injury. He missed the first two, against the Indiana Pacers and New York Knicks, with a left elbow contusion and left foot arthritis.<\/p>\n

James was injured in the fourth quarter<\/a> of the Lakers\u2019 game last Thursday night. James had scored over Denver Nikola Jokic, but was clipped by the Nuggets\u2019 center and fell hard onto the court, holding his left elbow.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe did his on-court shooting before our film and walk-through and probably just needs a couple more days,\u201d Lakers coach JJ Redick said. \u201cSo, it\u2019s still day to day. Sometimes day to day means two days, sometimes it can mean five or six days. But he\u2019s day to day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Redick was asked if James taking some games off for body maintenance during his NBA-record 23rd season was a good thing for the long haul and for a long playoff run.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, we obviously want him in the lineup,\u201d Redick said. \u201cWhen we were kind of approaching this stretch and you see the six days [of games] in eight nights \u2014 we had two back-to-backs last week \u2014 you never know how his body is going to respond to a game and how his foot is going to respond. So, it\u2019s not to say I expected him to miss a game. It\u2019s just it wouldn\u2019t have surprised me if he needed a day or two to get his body right. The fact that he had the falls in Denver \u2026 He\u2019s trying to ramp up. He wants to be out there and so do we and hopefully he\u2019s back soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James was downgraded to out with a right hip contusion and left foot arthritis for the Lakers\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[98315,14925,28684,217,16715,64965,423,98318,48,52,51,1415,13505,98316,47,50,49,98317,1414,51831,22926],"class_list":{"0":"post-214311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-body-maintenance","9":"tag-com-arena","10":"tag-crypto","11":"tag-day","12":"tag-day-to-day","13":"tag-foot-arthritis","14":"tag-game","15":"tag-game-last-thursday-night","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-la-headlines","18":"tag-la-news","19":"tag-lakers","20":"tag-lebron-james","21":"tag-left-elbow-contusion","22":"tag-los-angeles","23":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","24":"tag-los-angeles-news","25":"tag-minnesota-tonight","26":"tag-redick","27":"tag-third-straight-game","28":"tag-tuesday-night"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}