The Los Angeles Lakers’ honeymoon section could also be coming to an abrupt finish.
On Saturday night time, the Lakers fell to the rival Celtics in Boston by a 111-101 remaining rating. The Lakers trailed by as many as 22 factors within the recreation and likewise misplaced star participant LeBron James to an damage within the fourth quarter.
With simply over seven minutes left within the contest, James did a double-pivot transfer on Boston’s Jaylen Brown within the publish and transformed the basket. However James seemed to be very gimpy on his approach again up the ground. Right here is the video.
The Celtics then scored on the following possession, and the Lakers referred to as timeout. James exited the sport through the timeout and was seen stretching out his groin space on the sideline.
Shortly afterwards, the Lakers announced that James had suffered a “groin pressure” and was out for the remainder of the competition. He completed with 22 factors, 14 rebounds, and 9 assists in 35 minutes of play.
A groin pressure is normally a multi-week damage and will sideline James for an excellent longer time frame, relying on the severity. It’s also price noting that James is now 40 years outdated and nonetheless has a heavy workload, showing in 58 of 61 video games for the Lakers this season and averaging 34.9 minutes per night time. James beforehand had a extreme groin damage within the 2018-19 season as nicely, limiting him to simply 55 video games performed that yr.
Dave McMenamin of ESPN also reported after the game that the “preliminary thought” is that James will probably be now be sidelined for a matter of “weeks” relatively than days.
Ever because the addition of Luka Doncic, the Lakers had been coasting and had gained eight video games in a row getting into play this weekend to shoot all the way in which as much as second within the Western Convention. However they misplaced to the Celtics on Saturday and likewise misplaced James to a regarding damage (to associate with the other injury that the four-time NBA MVP was already managing this season).
