{"id":313556,"date":"2026-10-24T20:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T20:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313556\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T20:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T20:14:09","slug":"lebron-james-ruled-out-for-sixers-game-against-bucks-the-first-in-a-back-to-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313556\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James ruled out for Sixers&#8217; game against Bucks, the first in a back-to-back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James is out for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/sixers-lebron-james-home-opener-championship-dreams\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> because of lower back pain management for Saturday&#8217;s game against the Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n<p>James is sitting out the first of back-to-back games for the Sixers this weekend. They play Detroit on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old James averaged 15.5 points and 9.5 rebounds over his first two games with the Sixers. Philadelphia is 2-0 with wins over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/new-york-knicks-championship-banner-philadelphia-76ers-lebron-james\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBA champion Knicks<\/a> and Eastern Conference finalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/76ers-vs-cleveland-cavaliers-lebron-james-home-opener\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers rallied from 29 points down to beat Cleveland, which marked the biggest comeback win for any of James&#8217; teams over his NBA-record 24 seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James is out for the Philadelphia 76ers because of lower back pain management for Saturday&#8217;s game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17190,5002,18831,23927,4794,39663,69,1002,71,70,726],"class_list":["post-313556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-detroit","tag-lebron-james","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}