LeBron James Set to Miss Start of National Basketball Association Campaign due to Sciatica.
The veteran player began his professional journey with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2003.
James will be absent for approximately a month and will miss the start of the league campaign with sciatic nerve pain, the Los Angeles Lakers announced.
James, 40, signed a new contract with the LA team in June of this year and is poised to be the initial competitor to participate across 23 separate NBA seasons.
Sciatic nerve issues is a pain in the nerve that goes down the lower back and down the leg.
LeBron James did not participate in pre-season and missed the games against the Warriors and the Phoenix recently due to the nerve issue.
James is expected to be sidelined for every one of the five of the team's games in October, which includes the season-opener against Golden State Warriors.
LeBron James, the NBA's all-time leading scorer, has never previously missed the beginning of the campaign in his 22-season tenure.
The number of 1,562 regular-season appearances is only 50 away than surpassing former Celtics star Robert Parish's league record.
The title winner appeared in 70 out of the team's eighty-two games the previous campaign and competed in 71 games in the year before.
The previous season, James recorded 24.4 points per game, 8.2 assists and nearly 8 rebounds per game and came in sixth in the MVP vote.
The Lakers qualified for the play-offs in last season but fell four games to one against the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round.
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