LeBron James Will Miss Beginning of National Basketball Association Campaign due to Sciatic Nerve Pain.
James started his career with the Cavaliers in the year 2003.
The Lakers superstar will be absent for approximately a month and is confirmed to miss the beginning of the basketball season because of sciatica, LA Lakers announced.
LeBron James, 40, agreed to a new agreement with the LA team in the month of June and is poised to be the first athlete to play across 23 separate NBA seasons.
Sciatic pain is a pain in the nerve that goes down the lower back and down the leg.
The athlete was absent in pre-season and was out for the defeats against the Warriors and the Suns earlier this month as a result of the sciatic problem.
The American is expected to be sidelined for every one of the five of the team's games in the month of October, featuring the season-opener against the Warriors.
James, the NBA's all-time leading scorer, has always been present for the start of the campaign in his two-decade-plus career.
His count of 1,562 games played is just 50 short than breaking former Boston star Robert Parish's all-time record.
The champion appeared in 70 out of the team's 82 games the previous campaign and competed in 71 games in the prior season.
Last season, LeBron James averaged 24.4 points per game, more than 8 assists and 7.8 rebounds per game and finished sixth in the MVP vote.
Los Angeles Lakers qualified for the playoffs in last season but lost four games to one against the Timberwolves in the first round.
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