{"id":17758,"date":"2022-03-08T10:30:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=200662"},"modified":"2022-03-08T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T05:47:28","slug":"lebron-james-absence-cost-lakers-another-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/nba\/lebron-james-absence-cost-lakers-another-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James\u2019 absence cost Lakers another loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers LeBron James missed today\u2019s natch against San Antonio Spurs following some \u201csignificant\u201d soreness in his knee post Warriors game, reported\u00a0<em>ESPN.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>James blew up No. 2 seeded Golden State Warriors with 56 points, his season-high for the Lakers in their 124-116 victory on Sunday, 6 March that bought them 28-35, but his absence cost the team for another 117-110 loss today.<\/p>\n<p>Lakers are No. 9 in the Western Conference and desperately needs to win this season while they are already dealing without one of their superstars Anthony Davis due to a foot injury. Losing the four-time champion James, who is averaging 29.4 points, 8.1 rebounds and 6.2 assists per game in the season 2021-22 with 52.2 per cent of shooting from the field and 35.4 per cent from beyond the arc. will be a huge expense for the team that has been struggling badly.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Frank Vogel says that it can be expected that James will play their next match scheduled on Thursday, March 10 against the Rocket Houston and that they are \u201chopeful\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James was forced to skip the match against Spurs following \u201csignificant\u201d soreness in his knee. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":38502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2036,1147,583,1073,1071,2861],"class_list":["post-17758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-anthony-davis","tag-houston-rockets","tag-lakers","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-san-antonio-spurs"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}