{"id":212788,"date":"2025-10-09T22:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/212788\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T22:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:21:08","slug":"lebron-james-will-miss-start-of-2025-26-nba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/212788\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James Will Miss Start Of 2025-26 NBA Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

LeBron James joined a long list of NBA stars unavailable to start the 2025-26 regular season.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Lakers announced Thursday, per The Athletic\u2019s Dan Woike<\/a> and multiple reports, that James will be re-evaluated in three to four weeks with sciatica on his right side. He\u2019s thus expected to miss their season-opener against the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday, Oct. 21.<\/p>\n

James sat out training camp due to nerve irritation <\/a>in his glute. Head coach JJ Redick called the 40-year-old\u2019s recovery a \u201cslower process\u201d on Sept. 30, saying that he felt the league\u2019s all-time leading scorer did too much last training camp.<\/p>\n

After the Lakers revealed the injury, ESPN\u2019s Dave McMenamin<\/a> said LeBron\u2019s camp urged the team to be \u201coverly cautious\u201d in hopes of the superstar being ready for a possible championship push. Redick told reporters Thursday, via LakersNation\u2019s Daniel Starkand<\/a>, that James is \u201con his own timeline.\u201d<\/p>\n

Remarkably durable throughout his career, James is 50 games away from passing Robert Parish as the NBA\u2019s all-time leader in games played<\/a>. He missed considerable time with a foot injury in 2022-23 but has since played 70 games in 2023-24 and 70 last season.<\/p>\n

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The four-time NBA champion continued to play at a high level, averaging 24.4 points, 8.2 assists and 7.8 rebounds per game during his 22nd season. Los Angeles got eliminated in the first round for the second straight postseason, but the 17-time champions hope to make a bigger splash in the Western Conference with a full year from Luka Doncic.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Based on the three-to-four-week timetable, James will miss at least five games before he\u2019s re-evaluated. The future Hall of Famer could sit out longer, but he could return before the Lakers play the Boston Celtics on Dec. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James joined a long list of NBA stars unavailable to start the 2025-26 regular season. The Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[3013,355,99],"class_list":["post-212788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-lebron-james","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}