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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — LeBron James did not suffer a tear in his groin late in the Los Angeles Lakers’ loss to the LA Clippers on Wednesday, an MRI revealed Thursday.
Lakers coach Darvin Ham said James is day-to-day going forward. The team has officially listed him as out for Friday’s game against the Sacramento Kings due to a left adductor strain.
“It’s not torn, that’s the biggest thing, that he didn’t tear anything,” Ham said. “So it was good news. You know, I’m sure it’s painful. Doubtful, day-to-day, whatever — I’m just happy there wasn’t anything torn.”
As difficult as the start of the season has been for the 2-9 Lakers, there is a bit of a silver lining when it comes to the timing of James’ injury.
The Lakers play at home Friday against the Kings and Sunday against the Brooklyn Nets and then don’t play another game until Friday, Nov. 18, against the Detroit Pistons. James could take eight days off to rehabilitate his injury and miss only two games in the process.
James missed 17 straight games in his first season with the Lakers in 2018-19 because of a left groin tear and eventually shut things down before the end of the 82-game schedule to enter into offseason rehab early.
James told reporters Wednesday that his current discomfort is “not as bad” as what he went through four years ago.
Ham presented an optimistic front despite the latest challenge to face his team.
“People get caught up in just wanting to be mean because you’re having a little slippage or you’re dropping a few games,” Ham said. “But I’m not built like that. I’m not wired like that. My thing is to look at the positives, look at the negatives, what went wrong, how can we correct it? What went right, how can we sustain it? And put it out there, just in the manner of us trying to get better as a team in a business-like manner.
“So, all of the emotion and the fake rah-rah stuff, nah, we don’t do that. We just keep it real, keep it straight and try to get better every day.”
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