The star LeBron James missed 27 games of the 2018-2019 NBA regular season due to injury, which was decisive for the Los Angeles Lakers not qualifying for those playoffs.
The Los Angeles Lakers were playing some good basketball in December 2018 when their big star and new acquisition, LeBron James, missed the court for 18 games due to a prolonged groin muscle injury.
From that moment on, that team to which “El Rey” arrived went down, to such an extent that it ended up being left out of the NBA playoffs, coupled with the fact that the aforementioned luminary would miss another nine games at the end of the regular season for more physical problems.
In fact, a player from the aforementioned Lakers from 2018-2019 recalled those moments where the currency, then led by Luke Walton, started the fair in good shape but could not keep up once LeBron James was injured.
«LeBron injured his groin that year, (Kyle) Kuzma was also injured. I feel like we would have won the NBA championship without those injuries,” Lance Stephenson said, according to the lakersnation.com website.
Stephenson, who has not played in the basketball elite since 2021-2022, left 7.2 points per game in 16.5 minutes on average in the only season he played with “King James.”
A year later (2019-2020), when the NBA had to end the season in “The Bubble” in Orlando, LeBron James was able to lead the Lakers to the championship ring, after beating the Miami Heat in the league finals.
Source: Fansided
2023-08-09 21:38:56
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