🔗 Share this article LeBron James Set to Miss Start of National Basketball Association Campaign with Sciatic Issues. The veteran player started his NBA path with the Cleveland team in two thousand and three. The Lakers superstar has been ruled out for around four weeks and is set to miss the start of the basketball season with sciatic nerve pain, Lakers have confirmed. James, forty, signed a new contract with the LA team in the month of June and is set to become the first athlete to participate across 23 distinct seasons. Sciatica is a pain in the sciatic nerve that travels down the back and through the leg. The athlete did not participate in pre-season and missed the games against the Golden State and the Phoenix Suns this month as a result of the sciatic problem. The American is projected to sit out for each of the five of the Lakers' games in October, which includes the opening match against the Warriors. James, the NBA's all-time leading scorer, has never previously missed the start of the campaign in his 22-season tenure. The number of one thousand five hundred sixty-two games played is only 50 away than breaking former Celtics star Robert Parish's NBA record. The four-time NBA champion appeared in 70 of the Lakers' eighty-two games the previous campaign and competed in 71 occasions in the previous year. In the most recent campaign, James posted over 24 points, more than 8 assists and 7.8 rebounds per game per game and placed sixth in the MVP award vote. Los Angeles Lakers reached the play-offs in last season but fell four games to one against the Minnesota Timberwolves in the opening round. Connected Areas NBA Basketball