LeBron James could return from his high right ankle sprain as early as next week, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski said on Saturday’s pre-game show (hat tip to Justin Benjamin of Lakers Daily).
Wojnarowski was talking about Anthony Davis‘ minutes restriction in his second game since returning from his injuries and said Davis’ playing time will “start ramping up as we get closer to LeBron James’ return, which could be as soon as the following week.”
Woj’s outlook is much more optimistic than a report on Tuesday suggesting that James could still be weeks away from playing again.
James hasn’t played since hurting the ankle on March 20 in a collision with Hawks forward Solomon Hill, who was diving on the floor for a loose ball. James stayed in the game briefly, but an MRI showed the damage was significant.
The Lakers are 7-10 since James was injured and have fallen into a tight race for fifth place in the Western Conference.
I hope he will still have time to be active on social media. He’s had a banner week.
Why would you, or anyone, possibly care what LeBron James says about anything, whether you agree with it or not?
I don’t give a whole lot of headspace to what famous people think.
Also worth considering that LeBron et al are expressing an opinion that happens to be lucrative right now.
Jordan said, “Republicans but sneakers too,” when it was financially harmful to be a crusader for political causes (ie. Mahmoud Abdul Rauf, who essentially got blackballed out the league).
For all the crap Jordan gets, in a world where Amazon is promoting BLM, what LeBron is doing on Twitter isn’t really all that much different. It’s great PR.
Genius takes like ‘you’re next’
LeBron James May Be Back Next Week
Yeah, when he is done yelling
LeBron and AD will both have huge problems with the remaining schedule. The Lakers have 4 sets of B2B games in May so it’s highly doubtful either of them will be ready to play on both nights. They will likely have to alternate whenever LeBron eventually returns.
Buddy, they have 2 back-to-backs, total of 4 games, not 4 sets of b2bs
Are we talking about 4 b 4 like from in out burger
Meanwhile the Houston Rockets have had huge problems with their entire schedule. Back to backs, day games, night games, home games , road games…legend has it they haven’t won a practice or OTA yet either
lmao lebum is scared he will drop to 6th and have to face the Clippers
Lechina james
Dallas is creeping on that 5 spot, and Portland isn’t that far behind.
Having said that, IDK if I’d want to see Denver in the 1st round either. Even without Murray, Jokic and MPJ will be big problems. I almost think I’d rather play Phoenix, but then you’d have the play-in…road isn’t looking easy for LA this year either way.
You think lebron or ad care? They are both gonna be fresh. Outside of clippers and jazz don’t see any teams really testing them on their way to finals.