Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome into the Lakers Nation.com live podcast.

We've got breaking news about the health of LeBron James.

And unfortunately, it's not good.

You know, I was sitting here in the studio, getting ready to break down some of the comments coming out of practice,

have all my clips lined up.

In fact, I'll go over them with you guys in a little bit.

And then got hit by the news that I did not want to receive. all my clips lined up. In fact, I'll go over them with you guys in a little bit and then

got hit by the news that I did not want to receive. Lakers announcing that LeBron James

will be re-evaluated in approximately three to four weeks for sciatica on his right side.

Any further updates will be provided at that time, as I always have to do,

and I hate that I have to say this, but reevaluate does not mean return. This does not mean

that LeBron James is back in three to four weeks. This means LeBron is going to be re-evaluated

in three to four weeks. And then at that point, they'll have to figure out what's the ramp up process from there. Does he need another week? Does he need two weeks? Does he need to get back in shape in terms of his play on the floor? His conditioning, cardio, all that sort of stuff. So this does not mean we see LeBron in three to four weeks necessarily. Re-evaluate does not mean return so um i do have some good news

though i do i've got some good news as well so bear with me for just a moment i do have some good

news as well but when we're talking three to four weeks for him to get re-evaluated so that's right

around Halloween that lebron could be at the earliest that lebron could be re-evaluated if So that's right around Halloween that LeBron could be at the earliest that LeBron

could be re-evaluated. If not, I'm just looking at my calendar here, if not the first week of

November into that and then return. So we're talking about, you know, in terms of LeBron,

JJ mentioned LeBron's on his own timeline. He said that today at practice.

Absolutely accurate.

I will get to my good news in a minute because I hate talking about the negative stuff like this.

But in terms of how many games missed we're looking at here for LeBron James, probably at least 1, 2, 3, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,

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