🔗 Share this article LeBron James to Miss Opening of National Basketball Association Campaign because of Sciatic Issues. LeBron James started his NBA path with the Cleveland team in the year 2003. James is sidelined for around four weeks and is confirmed to miss the opening of the NBA season because of sciatic issues, the Los Angeles Lakers have confirmed. The player, forty, inked a fresh deal with the LA team in June of this year and will become the first athlete to compete across 23 separate NBA seasons. Sciatic nerve issues involves pain in the sciatic nerve that travels down the back and down the leg. LeBron James did not participate in preseason and was out for the games against the Warriors and the Phoenix recently because of the glute nerve irritation. The American is projected to sit out for every one of the five of the Lakers' games in October, which includes the opening match against the Warriors. The star, the league's top scorer, has not missed before the start of the campaign in his two-decade-plus career. His count of one thousand five hundred sixty-two regular-season appearances is just 50 short than breaking former Celtics star Robert Parish's NBA record. The champion appeared in 70 of the Lakers' 82 games the previous campaign and played on 71 occasions in the previous year. In the most recent campaign, James recorded 24.4 points, more than 8 assists and 7.8 rebounds per game and came in sixth in the Most Valuable Player vote. LA made it to the play-offs in 2024-25 but lost in five games against the Timberwolves in the opening round. Connected Areas Basketball Sports