{"id":432690,"date":"2025-03-13T07:33:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T06:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=432690"},"modified":"2025-03-13T07:33:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T06:33:03","slug":"lebron-returns-to-l-a-as-groin-recovery-progresses-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lebron-returns-to-l-a-as-groin-recovery-progresses-well\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron returns to L.A. as groin recovery progresses well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1259\" data-end=\"1503\"><strong data-start=\"1277\" data-end=\"1293\">LeBron James<\/strong> has returned to <strong data-start=\"1310\" data-end=\"1325\">Los Angeles<\/strong> per medical advice as he continues to recover from a <strong data-start=\"1379\" data-end=\"1402\">strained left groin<\/strong>, sources told ESPN\u2019s <strong data-start=\"1424\" data-end=\"1442\">Shams Charania<\/strong>. His expected timeline for return is <strong data-start=\"1480\" data-end=\"1500\">one to two weeks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1505\" data-end=\"1823\">The <strong data-start=\"1509\" data-end=\"1519\">Lakers<\/strong>, currently on a <strong data-start=\"1536\" data-end=\"1559\">four-game road trip<\/strong>, have dropped both games so far and will face the <strong data-start=\"1610\" data-end=\"1629\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1634\" data-end=\"1652\">Denver Nuggets<\/strong> next. James&#8217; absence, alongside injuries to <strong data-start=\"1697\" data-end=\"1713\">Jaxson Hayes<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1715\" data-end=\"1732\">Rui Hachimura<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"1738\" data-end=\"1761\">Dorian Finney-Smith<\/strong>, has significantly impacted the team\u2019s recent performances.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1825\" data-end=\"2056\">The team announced that <strong data-start=\"1849\" data-end=\"1872\">Hayes and Hachimura<\/strong> are ruled out for Thursday\u2019s matchup in Milwaukee, but <strong data-start=\"1928\" data-end=\"1963\">Finney-Smith is cleared to play<\/strong>. The Lakers will be hoping for James\u2019 quick return as they battle for playoff positioning.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2058\" data-end=\"2074\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/44225649\/sources-lebron-returns-la-recovery-progressing-well\"><em data-start=\"2058\" data-end=\"2072\">Source: ESPN<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lakers star is expected to miss one to two weeks as he rehabs from a left groin strain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-432690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Los-Angeles-Lakers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432690"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=432690"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=432690"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=432690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}