LeBron James may miss an prolonged time frame resulting from a proper foot harm, Shams Charania of The Athletic studies. He’ll get a number of medical opinions relating to the harm, however the Lakers are bracing for his absence to be a number of weeks, Charania provides (Twitter hyperlinks).
James suffered the harm throughout Sunday’s recreation in opposition to Dallas, through which the Lakers rallied from a 27-point deficit to drag out a 111-108 win. James performed via the harm on Sunday however the group has already listed him as out for his or her recreation in opposition to Memphis on Tuesday, Jovan Buha of The Athletic tweets (Twitter hyperlink).
James’ absence could possibly be a crushing blow to the Lakers’ playoff hopes. They’re at present 29-32 and twelfth within the Western Convention standings.
James admitted after Sunday’s recreation that he was hurting, Dave McMenamin of ESPN relays.
“It’s been higher,” James stated. “That’s for positive. However I undoubtedly wasn’t going to go to the locker room and never end the sport out tonight. Simply understood the significance of the sport, after which with the momentum that we had, I felt like we may nonetheless win after being down. We’ll monitor it the subsequent couple days, see the way it feels and go from there.”
James, who has already missed 14 video games this season, is averaging 29.5 factors, 8.4 rebounds and 6.9 assists. He stated through the All-Star break he was decided to play each recreation the remainder of the season, wanting to get again to the postseason after the Lakers didn’t qualify final season.
With out James, the Lakers should rely extra on newcomer Jarred Vanderbilt, Rui Hachimura, Troy Brown Jr. and Lonnie Walker IV.
