{"id":616962,"date":"2026-02-22T03:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/616962\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T03:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:24:14","slug":"lebron-james-on-the-knee-soreness-he-experienced-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/616962\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James on the knee soreness he experienced on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James didn&#8217;t exactly have a great game on Friday against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-clippers\/12\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Clippers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Clippers<\/a>. He scored just 13 points and shot 5-of-13 from the field, and he nearly cost the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Lakers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> the game when he threw a bad inbounds pass with eight seconds left and the Lakers up by three.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for the Lakers, Nicolas Batum missed what would&#8217;ve been the game-tying 3-pointer, and they escaped with a <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/lakers-player-grades-lakers-outlast-064853132.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:125-122 win;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">125-122 win<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>For a period of time before Friday&#8217;s game, there was some doubt about whether James would be able to play due to knee soreness. After the game, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpectrumSN\/status\/2025100101920890936\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:he described;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">he described<\/a> when he started to experience knee soreness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt happened at practice yesterday, during our scrimmage,\u201d he said. \u201c[I] went up for a dunk [and] came down pretty good. But a couple minutes into the scrimmage after that, I started getting a little soreness and started getting a little tight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, James is expected to play on Sunday when the Lakers host the Boston Celtics. The team is in fifth place in the Western Conference with a 34-21 record and is one game behind the third-place <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/denver-nuggets\/7\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Denver Nuggets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Denver Nuggets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the season, the 41-year-old is averaging 21.7 points on 49.9% field-goal shooting, 5.7 rebounds and 7.2 assists a game.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on LeBron Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/lebronwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2026\/02\/21\/lebron-james-on-the-knee-soreness-he-experienced-on-friday\/88805357007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:LeBron James on the knee soreness he experienced on Friday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">LeBron James on the knee soreness he experienced on Friday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James didn&#8217;t exactly have a great game on Friday against the Los Angeles Clippers. He scored just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,75,187,185,135,150,1522],"class_list":{"0":"post-616962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-denver-nuggets","11":"tag-lebron-james","12":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","13":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","14":"tag-nicolas-batum"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116112148045795497","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}