LeBron James responded well to participating in three-minute scrimmages but he will not play Tuesday when the Los Angeles Lakers host the Philadelphia 76ers. The game will mark a 17th in a row James has missed, extending a career-long streak.
James joined the Lakers for shootaround, even sitting in on a film session which he’d previously halted while recovering from the groin strain suffered on Christmas. “He said he felt really good this morning. He did the full shootaround. He had been just going from the warmup into practice,” Lakers head coach Luke Walton explained.
“We didn’t have him in the film session because we didn’t want him to get tight.