LeBron James Suffers Injury Scare

Last year, the Los Angeles Lakers had their season derailed and their playoff hopes thwarted when their star LeBron James suffered a groin injury during their Christmas game against the Golden State Warriors. This marked the first time James missed the playoffs since 2005, and added another losing year to the franchise's woeful streak.

While the Lakers have no reason to worry about missing the playoffs this season, recently, they had a scare regarding LeBron James' prior injury, exactly one year later. After missing the last game against the Nuggests due to a muscle strain, LeBron aggravated his groin injury during the first quarter of Wednesday's game in a collision with the Clippers' Patrick Beverly. Despite finishing with 23 points, 9 rebounds, and 10 assists in a losing effort, LeBron has been advised to sit out and rehabilitate his injury. The Lakers wish to avoid a recurrence of last year's outcome; although they are the top team in the Western Conference, they have currently lost four consecutive games.

LeBron is on track to play against Portland on Saturday.