{"id":23372,"date":"2026-03-11T06:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=23372"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:10:15","slug":"lakers-lebron-james-misses-3rd-straight-sits-out-win-vs-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=23372","title":{"rendered":"Lakers&#8217; LeBron James misses 3rd straight, sits out win vs. Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"byline-wrap\">\n<ul class=\"authors byline-authors\">\n<li class=\"single-author mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Dave McMenamin<span class=\"timestamp \">Mar 10, 2026, 09:35 PM ET<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-overlay\"><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN.\n<\/li>\n<li>Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Multiple Authors<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2876e98b-b9bc-2920-4319-46e6943f8be4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lal\/los-angeles-lakers\">Lakers<\/a> star <a data-player-guid=\"1f6592b3-ff53-d321-8dc5-6038d48c1786\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/1966\/lebron-james\">LeBron James<\/a> remained out for Tuesday night&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/boxscore\/_\/gameId\/401810801\" target=\"_blank\">120-106 win<\/a> over the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"13f727cb-254d-b484-a337-93fcc0047add\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-timberwolves\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> because of left foot arthritis and a right hip contusion.<\/p>\n<p>James went through his pregame shooting routine at Crypto.com Arena prior to the Lakers&#8217; team walk-through and determined he needed more time to get treatment on his left foot before playing in a game, coach JJ Redick said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/48166967\/lakers-luka-doncic-says-custody-battle-daughters\" class=\"img-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r1611561_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It was James&#8217; third straight missed game, the longest stretch the 23-year veteran has been out since he was sidelined the first 14 games of the season with sciatica in his lower back and down his right leg.<\/p>\n<p>Redick said James is considered day to day going forward. The Lakers&#8217; next game is Thursday at home against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e588ccf1-ba03-ea43-c34c-9a9c8d1895ca\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-bulls\">Chicago Bulls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"40c1bcf6-675b-f217-f97c-1d628073f927\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4066648\/rui-hachimura\">Rui Hachimura<\/a> started in James&#8217; place for the Lakers, who also were without both of their backup big men against Minnesota, as <a data-player-guid=\"d06ad722-26ff-5865-1433-061e2e6fbb32\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/2960236\/maxi-kleber\">Maxi Kleber<\/a> (lumbar back strain) and <a data-player-guid=\"4cd92ac1-73ce-653d-c3b1-9c68e9c7a4d0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4397077\/jaxson-hayes\">Jaxson Hayes<\/a> (back soreness) were late scratches.\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/48168670\/lakers-lebron-james-misses-third-straight-sits-vs-wolves\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave McMenaminMar 10, 2026, 09:35 PM ET Close Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09. Multiple Authors LOS ANGELES &#8212; Lakers star LeBron James remained out for Tuesday night&#8217;s 120-106 win over the Minnesota &#8230; <a title=\"Lakers&#8217; LeBron James misses 3rd straight, sits out win vs. Wolves\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=23372\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lakers&#8217; LeBron James misses 3rd straight, sits out win vs. Wolves\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lakers-LeBron-James-misses-3rd-straight-sits-out-win-vs.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23374,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23372\/revisions\/23374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}