""We've been taking it literally one minute, one hour, one step at a time throughout this whole process," James said. "So, see how I feel this afternoon, see how I feel tonight. When I wake up in the morning, we'll probably have shootaround. So, just got to see how the body responds over the next 24 hours-plus.""
""It definitely sucks," James said of the time he was sidelined. "Never in my life since I started playing the game of basketball have I ever not started the season. ... So it's been a mind test, but I'm built for it and it's been putting in the work, both mentally and physically trying to get myself ready to rejoin the team.""
""If you ain't never had it, and people are making jokes about it, I pray you never get it," James said. "It's not fun." He added: "You wake up one day and you hope that when you step down from the bed that you don't feel it. You go to bed at night. And you hope that when you're in the bed that you don't feel it. So, I've been doing pretty good with it as of late.""
LeBron James practiced 5-on-5 with the Los Angeles Lakers for the first time since the playoffs and indicated return to game action is imminent. He missed training camp, the preseason and the first 14 games because of sciatica affecting his lower back and right-side nerves. The team plans to monitor his response over the next 24 hours, including shootaround, before determining availability for a potential game against the Utah Jazz. The sciatica recurred after a prior episode in summer 2023. James described the condition as painful and mentally challenging while continuing physical and mental preparation to rejoin the team.
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