On Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers announced that LeBron James will miss the start of the regular season due to sciatica on his right side. He'll be re-evaluated in three to four weeks, but that doesn't mean he'll be ready to make his 2025-26 season debut then. ESPN's Tim Bontemps guessed that LeBron will "probably" end up missing six to eight weeks.
Bontemps was on the "Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective" podcast with Windhorst and Tim MacMahon. MacMahon told Bontemps, "Let's not start doing doctor math." Bontemps then reasoned that since LeBron will be re-evaluated in three to four weeks, you have to add on a "minimum" of two weeks to that.