Lakers Star LeBron James’ New Return Date Revealed

NBA fans asked too many questions about LeBron James and his return date. Well, it looks like we have an update.

The Los Angeles Lakers will probably have LeBron back on the floor right on time for the final push for playoff seeding. Shams Charania from The Athletic provided the update. According to him, LeBron may play on May 11 or May 12. The Los Angeles Lakers are playing against the New York Knicks and Houston Rockets.

“Lakers star LeBron James is targeting Tuesday vs. New York for return to the lineup from sore right ankle, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium,” Charania tweeted. “If not Tuesday, Wednesday vs. Houston is possible.”

LeBron suffered a high-ankle sprain in the game against the Atlanta Hawks. He returned to game action on April 30 only to reaggravate his injury. King James played in just a couple of games. The soreness in his ankle forced him to miss four more games. If Charania is right, LeBron will return sooner than expected.

LeBron James looks forward to his return date

King James got a little worried about his injury. He even said that he may not get back to 100%. Well, most players feel that way at this point of the regular season.

“It’s been urgency for me to get back ever since I got injured,” James noted on April 30th, per ESPN’s Dave McMenamin. “So that’s just who I am,” he said. “You guys could have seen the logging of the minutes and hours per day that I was doing as far as rehab and treatment, it was a lot more than I slept. So over the last six weeks, that’s all I’ve been doing, is having an urgency to get back and play. I knew I wasn’t going to get back to 100%. It’s impossible. I don’t think I will ever get back to 100% in my career.”

Lakers head coach Frank Vogel has great plans for the rest of the season but he really needs LeBron to be healthy.

“We want him back as soon as possible,” Vogel said. “But we want him back as healthy as possible. That’s the No. 1 goal. Wherever we end up in the standings, we want him as healthy as possible going into the playoffs. Other than that, we’re just going to compete and try to win as many games down the stretch here.”