The Los Angeles Lakers entered the Boston Celtics of the Celtics on Saturday who made a sequence of eight consecutive victories, but they left after losing more than the match. With 6:44 am to play in the fourth quarter, LeBron James left the match while the Lakers progressed during their attempt to return 22 points, but he did not return. It has been excluded for the game with a tension of the left groin, and now, according to EspnHe should miss at least the next ones at two weeks. It will be reassessed in 24 hours when the injury calms down.
James took an optimistic tone when he was asked for his level of concern in his availability of post-match media. “Not much concern”, he said After the match. “Obviously, I’m day by day. I’m going to watch it every day and see if it’s better. We will take the appropriate measures to see what we have to do to go ahead.” If James can indeed come back in a week or two, this should be treated as a victory for the Lakers given how much a worst tension could have been more destructive.
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The injury came as James went to the basket against Jaylen Brown. He tried a spin movement and followed this with two fake heads, finally converting the lay-up. James had a slight soft after the scoring, but tried to play in defense on the following possession.
During the trip that followed, Brown led for a quick lay-up and James obviously underlined the bench to ask to be removed from the game.
“The last score I had on Jaylen Brown, probably extended it a little too much,” said James after the match. “A couple pivots and then when I landed, I felt it.”
The groin stumps can be delicate injuries. James, in particular, suffered a tear in the left groin at Christmas 2018 in a match against the Golden State Warriors who ended up derailing his season, but he said that one was much worse than the one on Saturday evening. In November 2022, he left a match against the Clippers of Los Angeles with another groin injury, and finally missed five games when he recovered. The severity of the tension will greatly help determine how long this injury potentially costs James.
The Lakers prospered recently, and although the acquisition of Luka Dončić was an important part, James was the catalyst of the team. The Lakers went 18-3 in their 21 previous games entering Saturday, and James collected on average 27.4 points, 9.4 rebounds and 7.9 assists in this period on very high efficiency while playing excellent defense. Now, the Lakers will have to adapt to life without him at the moment.
