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Hacksaw’s Great Sports Weekend Podcast
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“NBA-LA-ISSUES–ALREADY”
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Time out from the Dodgers-Phillies wild playoff series….Rams pursuit of first place… the Chargers roster issues…USC’s hot streak..and UCLA’s adventures.
Time in for NBA teams in camp with the season a week away.
Stop the presses. This is a hard to believe story.
LeBron James won’t play for the Lakers opening night. In fact he won’t play for a month.
From what was a minor nerve issue in his glute has escalated to a full blown case of sciatica, that will knock him out for 4-weeks.
As if there are not enough questions about new pieces trying to fit in together, now the Lakers become Luka Doncic, a new center, and new guys off the bench trying to win right from the get go. Without King James.
Deandre Ayton has played poorly in preseason, this coming after he played himself off the roster of the Portland Trailblazers. He seems a shell of the player who broke in with the Suns years ago and did so well.
Marcus Smart is coming off surgery and may need conditioning time.
Austin Reaves and Rui Hachimura will be the other starters, but now there are question marks all around Doncic.
LeBron missed the end of last season with a foot injury after having ankle injuries early. Now he shows up hurt, has never practiced and is now out into likely December, if this hip-back-leg issue does not linger.
Not what the Lakers need as James enters his 23rd season of a never to be matched career. But that’s lots of minutes-games-banging-grinding.
You hope this is a fluke injury, not a wear and tear complication of the 200,000 miles on his body.
The last hurrah for LeBron will be delayed. You hope he is not becoming sidetracked by a body breaking down.
An LA-issue already. No one saw this coming. No one wants thisl.
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