James Will Miss Start of National Basketball Association Campaign with Sciatic Nerve Pain.
James started his NBA path with the Cavaliers in 2003.
James will be absent for up to four weeks and is confirmed to miss the beginning of the basketball season due to sciatic nerve pain, Lakers announced.
The player, forty, inked a fresh deal with the Lakers in June and will become the first player to compete across 23 distinct seasons.
Sciatic pain refers to discomfort in the nerve that travels down the lower back and into the leg.
LeBron James was absent in pre-season and did not play in the losses against the Golden State and the Suns earlier this month as a result of the sciatic problem.
James will likely miss for all five of the LA Lakers' games in October, which includes the season-opener against Golden State Warriors.
LeBron James, the highest points scorer in history, has never previously missed the start of the NBA year in his two-decade-plus career.
His count of over 1,500 matches participated in is only 50 away than surpassing former Boston star Robert Parish's NBA record.
The four-time NBA champion featured in seventy of the team's eighty-two games last term and played on 71 matches in the prior season.
The previous season, LeBron James recorded 24.4 points per game, 8.2 assists per game and 7.8 rebounds per game per game and finished sixth in the Most Valuable Player vote.
The Lakers reached the postseason in 2024-25 but fell in five games against the Timberwolves in the initial stage.
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