LeBron James will be excluded at least a few games due to a groin injury that he suffered on Saturday with the defeat of Los Angeles Lakers against the Boston Celtics against the defeat of Boston Celtics.

The Lakers star is expected to be missed at least one to two weeks due to the illness. There is a lot of hope that James’ absence will not be much longer because he said that he had not heard a pop sound when the injury appeared.

James suffered the injury to a spinz train when he scored a bucket in the fourth quarter of the game on Saturday. During a subsequent break, he carefully went to the Huwdle and then hardly moved before he went into the changing room with coaches. He ended with 22 points, 14 rebounds and nine templates when the Lakers grabbed their eight-game winning shop.

While James did not return to the game on Saturday after the injury, the 40-year-old played all worries that he would get out of the way a lot of time.

“Not much worried,” James told reporters. “Of course I am every day. I will see it every day and see if it gets better and take the right measures to see what I have to do to go forward.”

This is not the first time that James has to do with a groin injury. Above all, he missed 17 games in a row after suffering a tear in his left groin area on Christmas Day in 2018. James said on Saturday evening that he does not believe that his recent injury is as serious as this.

“I’ve been there before and know what kind of injury we are dealing with,” said James.

In his 22nd season, James showed hardly any signs of slowing down and achieved an average of 25 points, 8.5 assists and 8.2 rebounds per game. Last week he was the first NBA player to score 50,000 career points, including the post -season.

With James in the changing room, the Lakers cut a 20-point deficit in the fourth quarter to individual digits. But Jayson Tatum and Brown scored the last 12 points in Boston to keep the victory.

In his first game in Boston, Luka Dončić had lost 34 points and eight rebound since he and the Dallas Mavericks game 5 of the NBA final had lost when Boston won his 18th championship.

After the defeat on Saturday, the Lakers (40-22) fell to third place in the Western Conference classification and face a hard upcoming route.

LA will play eight games in the next two weeks, with five of these matchups coming against teams that are currently in the playoff picture. This includes a home and at home against the Denver Nuggets, which the Lakers lead in the overall ranking in Sunday with half a game.

“It doesn’t matter who is in the line -up, we have to play our game,” said James. “We have most of the year in and from the occupation. And we have had boys in and from the line -up in the past six weeks. … nothing changes.”

The Lakers will visit Brooklyn next Monday, and it looks like they will be without James that night and a little longer.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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