{"id":20891,"date":"2025-10-10T11:35:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/lebron-james-to-miss-start-of-nba-season-with-sciatica\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:35:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:35:52","slug":"lebron-james-to-miss-start-of-nba-season-with-sciatica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/lebron-james-to-miss-start-of-nba-season-with-sciatica\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James to miss start of NBA season with sciatica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">LeBron James has been ruled out for up to four weeks and will miss the start of the NBA season with sciatica, Los Angeles Lakers have confirmed.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James, 40, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c62g8642x68o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">signed a new contract<\/a> with the Lakers in June and is set to become the first player to play across 23 separate NBA seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sciatica is a pain in the sciatic nerve that goes down the lower back and through the leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James has not taken part in pre-season and missed the defeats against the Golden State Warriors and the Phoenix Suns earlier this month because of the glute nerve irritation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The American is expected to be sidelined for all five of the Lakers&#8217; games in October, including the season-opener against Golden State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c5yx09e4ld2o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">NBA&#8217;s all-time leading scorer<\/a>, has never previously missed the start of the season in his 22-year career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cp3veq7l83go?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James has been ruled out for up to four weeks and will miss the start of the NBA season with sciatica, Los Angeles Lakers have confirmed. James, 40, signed a new contract with the Lakers in June and is set to become the first player to play across 23 separate NBA seasons. Sciatica is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20893,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20891\/revisions\/20893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}