LeBron James Sidelined with Sciatica: Real or Ruse?

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00:00So it comes out yesterday that LeBron James is out for three or four weeks minimum.

00:05We'll miss the start of this NBA season because he has sciatica.

00:10Sciatica is an old person's disease, which it's like pain that radiates from your lower back,

00:16usually down one of your legs.

00:17That's the stereotypical sciatica.

00:20And normally you hear like your grandfather complain about back pain, oh my God,

00:24and it goes down the leg and it's not fun, right?

00:26It's very rare for a well-conditioned athlete in his prime or even just past his prime to have sciatica.

00:33Unless you're like, I suppose, like one of these guys that's like a heavy weightlifter

00:37and you're using your lower back muscles a lot, that kind of thing.

00:41And I'm calling BS on it.

00:43Why?

00:43Because I just saw him dancing last week and that's not to do with sciatica, right?

00:49I hate to be that guy, but this seems to be the current norm for LeBron

00:55where he's not ready to, you know, either going into like an all-star break or to start a season

01:01or doing a quote-unquote meaningless part of the season and disappears.

01:07Now, I want to be very careful and clear how I say this because I don't know what he's doing or not doing.

01:12Would you be surprised at all if we find out that LeBron is on vacation,

01:18oh, I don't know, in Europe over the course of the next week or two or three to four weeks

01:24while he's not playing basketball in the NBA?

01:27Would you be further surprised that when he comes back from that European vacation,

01:32if he suddenly is able to run and play basketball like a kid half his age?

01:37Would that surprise anybody out there?

01:40Of course not.

01:40It's LeBron James.

01:41Of course not.

01:42Right.

01:43So you're going down the road that I'm considering that perhaps it's not sciatica,

01:49and he has lied about injuries before.

01:52Remember when he claimed that he wouldn't have been able to play in game six last year in the playoffs

01:56had they not been eliminated because all of a sudden he had some type of MCL sprain?

02:01Yeah.

02:01And literally the next day he was dancing, right?

02:05Yeah.

02:06And doing like the move with your knees where you can't do that if you have sprained MCL?

02:10Yeah, like a version of the butterfly it felt like, yeah.

02:14So, and look, I get it.

02:17And if he is doing what I think he might be doing in Europe to guarantee that he's able

02:22to go play 65 games this year.

02:25And possibly make a playoff run.

02:26And maybe make the playoffs and make a run with Luka and whatnot.

02:30As a fan, if I were a Laker fan, I support it.

02:33I support it 100%.

02:35I just would rather not be lied to.

02:37That's all.

02:38And I'm convinced that's what this is all about.

02:41And I want to be clear.

02:42I'm not accusing him of doing it.

02:44I'm not saying he is doing it.

02:46I'm saying I wouldn't be surprised if that's what this ruse is all about.

02:51It just seems very weird to me that he all of a sudden has sciatica out of the blue that

02:58we've never heard of before.

02:59And we know everything about him because he's a public figure for so long.

03:03And then all of a sudden, three weeks from now, five weeks from now, he's going to show

03:07up and play 40 minutes a game and look like he's 25 years old again.

03:13There's a reason cats go to Europe when they need some help physically and medically to be

03:18there to play the level they want to play at.

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