{"id":269820,"date":"2025-10-01T18:26:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/269820\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:26:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:26:19","slug":"lebron-james-camp-sent-cautious-message-to-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/269820\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James&#8217; camp sent &#8216;cautious&#8217; message to Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trudging into uncharted territory, LeBron James is taking it slow and steady.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Lakers are taking extra precautions with the 40-year-old basketball star as he physically prepares for a record 23rd NBA season, according to ESPN\u2019s Dave McMenamin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeBron\u2019s camp has spoken to the Lakers and they said, let\u2019s be overly cautious with LeBron [James],\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ESPNNBA\/status\/1973109492310048807\" rel=\"nofollow\">McMenamin said<\/a> ahead of the Lakers\u2019 first practice on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.40659341;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37264347\" width=\"830\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/los-angeles-lakers-forward-lebron-97751368.jpg\" alt=\"LeBron James\" class=\"wp-image-37264347\"  \/>The Los Angeles Lakers are taking extra precautions with LeBron James as he physically prepares for a record 23rd NBA season.  JASON SZENES FOR THE NEW YORK POST<\/p>\n<p>The NBA\u2019s all-time scoring leader was originally listed as a \u201climited participant\u201d for Tuesday\u2019s practice, but was held off the court altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach JJ Redick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46441482\/lebron-james-glute-sidelined-open-lakers-training-camp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told reporters<\/a> James was dealing with \u201ca little bit of irritation in his glute\u201d \u2014 also factoring in 22 years\u2019 worth of NBA wear-and-tear on his body.<\/p>\n<p>James appeared in three of six preseason games for L.A. last season, but Redick believed even that to be a bit too much at this point in his career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll be a slower process with him leading into the first game,\u201d Redick said. \u201cObviously, in Year 23, it\u2019s uncharted territory here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.57781202;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37264352\" width=\"931\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/user-expressly-acknowledges-agrees-downloading-112134732.jpg\" alt=\"JJ Redick\" class=\"wp-image-37264352\"  \/>Lakers head coach JJ Redick speaks with media during a press conference at UCLA Health Training Center on September 25, 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The four-time MVP averaged 24.4 points, 8.2 assists, and 7.8 rebounds for Los Angeles last season on 51.3 percent shooting from the field and a 37.6 percent clip from long range across 70 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in the team\u2019s first 23 games of the regular season but endured a miserable slump in early December that preceded an eight-day absence, when he sat out two games to nurse his sore left foot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>James later suffered a Grade 2 MCL sprain in the Lakers\u2019 Game 5 elimination loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves in the opening round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Redick, entering his second year as head coach, emphasized that the Lakers\u2019 top priority is keeping their star healthy throughout the regular season and beyond.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re playing the long game with LeBron,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>James told ESPN that he\u2019s \u201cnot where I want to be\u201d at this stage in the preseason, but added, \u201cI got some time and I\u2019m looking forward to the process of getting there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers have six preseason games starting on Friday, and the team\u2019s quest for an 18th championship begins on Oct. 21, when they host the Golden State Warriors at Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trudging into uncharted territory, LeBron James is taking it slow and steady.\u00a0 The Los Angeles Lakers are taking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":269821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3363,3141,1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-269820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-lebron-james","9":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115300321830149738","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}