{"id":477845,"date":"2026-01-08T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=477845"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:29:00","slug":"lakers-lebron-james-ruled-out-vs-spurs-with-foot-arthritis-and-sciatica-back-to-backs-tbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lakers-lebron-james-ruled-out-vs-spurs-with-foot-arthritis-and-sciatica-back-to-backs-tbd\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers: LeBron James ruled out vs Spurs with foot arthritis and sciatica, back-to-backs \u201cTBD\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1720\" data-end=\"1970\">The <strong data-start=\"1738\" data-end=\"1760\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> held <strong data-start=\"1766\" data-end=\"1782\">LeBron James<\/strong> out of Wednesday\u2019s 107-91 loss to the <strong data-start=\"1821\" data-end=\"1842\">San Antonio Spurs<\/strong>, listing multiple injuries.<br data-start=\"1870\" data-end=\"1873\" \/>He was downgraded to out shortly before tipoff, with <strong data-start=\"1926\" data-end=\"1947\">Jarred Vanderbilt<\/strong> starting in his place.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1972\" data-end=\"2289\">James, 41, previously missed the first 14 games of the season because of sciatica and still hasn\u2019t played both ends of a back-to-back since returning.<br data-start=\"2122\" data-end=\"2125\" \/>After a win in New Orleans (30 points, 8 rebounds, 8 assists), LeBron said every back-to-back for the rest of the year is \u201cTBD,\u201d depending on how his body responds.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2291\" data-end=\"2568\">Coach <strong data-start=\"2297\" data-end=\"2310\">JJ Redick<\/strong> described it as injury management, noting James\u2019 foot is typically sore after games and decisions hinge on how he feels the next morning.<br data-start=\"2448\" data-end=\"2451\" \/>In additional news, <strong data-start=\"2471\" data-end=\"2487\">Gabe Vincent<\/strong> returned from a nine-game absence due to a back issue, on a minutes restriction.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2570\" data-end=\"2643\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"2570\" data-end=\"2601\">Source: ESPN (Dave McMenamin)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James missed the Lakers\u2019 loss in San Antonio due to \u201cleft foot joint arthritis\u201d and \u201cright sciatica\u201d.<\/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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-477845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"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\/477845","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=477845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477845\/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=477845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477845"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=477845"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=477845"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=477845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}