James Set to Miss Opening of National Basketball Association Season with Sciatica.

The Lakers superstar has been ruled out for up to four weeks and is set to miss the opening of the basketball season due to sciatica, the Los Angeles Lakers stated.

James, forty, inked a fresh deal with the LA team in the month of June and will become the first player to play across 23 individual campaigns.

Sciatic nerve issues refers to discomfort in the sciatic nerve that extends through the lower back and down the leg.

James has not taken part in pre-season and was out for the losses against the Golden State Warriors and the Phoenix Suns recently because of the glute nerve irritation.

The American is projected to sit out for each of the five of the team's games in October, featuring the season-opener against Golden State Warriors.

The star, the league's top scorer, has never previously missed the start of the season in his two-decade-plus career.

The number of one thousand five hundred sixty-two games played is just 50 short than breaking former Celtics star Parish's league record.

The four-time NBA champion appeared in seventy of the Lakers' 82 games last season and was active for 71 matches in the year before.

Last season, the player averaged 24.4 points per game, 8.2 assists per game and 7.8 rebounds per game per game and came in sixth in the MVP vote.

Los Angeles Lakers reached the postseason in last season but were defeated 4-1 against the Minnesota in the initial stage.

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