Lakers’ LeBron James out for Tuesday’s game vs. Thunder with left foot injury

Last week, when the Los Angeles Lakers misplaced to the defending NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder by 43 factors, Luka Dončić and Austin Reaves suffered accidents that can maintain them out no less than by way of the rest of the common season.

Five days later, the Lakers are taking over the Western Conference-leading Thunder once more, and this time they will not even have LeBron James within the lineup.

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James, who’s managing a left foot injury, will miss Tuesday evening’s showdown in LA, the Lakers announced hours before tip-off.

ESPN’s Dave McMenamin reported that, extra particularly, James is dealing with left foot soreness. LA has already clinched the Pacific Division title and a spot within the playoffs. At 50-28, the Lakers are at the moment fourth within the West. They’re solely a half-game again of the Denver Nuggets, who they maintain a tiebreaker over.

LA has 4 regular-season video games remaining. That contains Tuesday’s game versus the Thunder, which marks the primary of three video games in 4 nights for JJ Redick’s injury-riddled squad.

Dončić is nursing a left hamstring strainand the Slovenian superstar is reportedly in Europe seeking specialized medical treatment to hurry up his restoration from a setback that interrupted an MVP-caliber marketing campaign. In his first full season with the Lakers, Dončić has posted a league-leading 33.5 factors per game. He went off in March, averaging 37.5 throughout the month, however now he has to attend and see if he’ll even be eligible for the NBA’s end-of-season awards.

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Since he completed one game shy of the league’s 65-game minimal for these honors, Dončić’s camp utilized for an “Extraordinary Circumstances Challenge,” citing the two games he missed for the birth of his second child.

Dončić’s injury analysis is a Grade 2 hamstring pressure, and he is out indefinitely in the mean time. Reaves, in the meantime, is working his approach again from a Grade 2 indirect pressure and is reportedly anticipated to overlook four-to-six weeks. Like Dončić, Reaves has loved a profession 12 months in 2025-26. He’s averaging 23.3 factors, 5.5 assists and 4.7 rebounds per contest.