LeBron James Will Miss Start of National Basketball Association Season due to Sciatic Nerve Pain.
James commenced his NBA path with the Cavaliers in 2003.
The Lakers superstar has been ruled out for up to four weeks and will miss the beginning of the NBA season with sciatica, the Los Angeles Lakers stated.
James, 40, signed a new contract with the LA team in June of this year and will become the first athlete to participate across 23 distinct seasons.
Sciatic pain is a pain in the sciatic region that extends through the back and through the leg.
The athlete did not participate in exhibition games and was out for the defeats against the Warriors and the Phoenix Suns this month because of the sciatic problem.
The veteran is expected to be sidelined for every one of the five of the team's games in October, featuring the season-opener against the Warriors.
The star, the NBA's all-time leading scorer, has always been present for the opening of the campaign in his two-decade-plus career.
His count of over 1,500 regular-season appearances is only 50 away than overtaking former Boston Celtics star Robert Parish's all-time record.
The title winner featured in 70 of the Lakers' 82 games the previous campaign and played on 71 games in the year before.
In the most recent campaign, James posted 24.4 points, 8.2 assists per game and nearly 8 rebounds per game and came in sixth in the Most Valuable Player vote.
The Lakers made it to the postseason in last season but lost in five games against the Minnesota in the first round.
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