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Los Angeles Lakers coach JJ Redick says he does not know when LeBron James will return after he missed a second consecutive game.<\/b><\/p>\n
James, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer and a four-time NBA champion, sat out Sunday’s win over the Portland Trail Blazers because of a sore foot and missed practice this week for what Redick said were “personal reasons”.<\/p>\n
Asked before Friday’s 97-87 defeat at the Minnesota Timberwolves if he knew when 39-year-old James would be back with the team, Redick said: “No.”<\/p>\n
The loss at Target Centre was the Lakers’ eighth defeat in 11 games, while the Timberwolves claimed a fifth win in six games thanks to 23 points from Anthony Edwards and 21 from Julius Randle.<\/p>\n
Anthony Davis finished with 23 points and 11 rebounds for the Lakers, who host the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday (02:30 GMT, Monday).<\/p>\n
Joel Embiid suffered a sinus fracture in the Philadelphia 76ers’ 121-107 home defeat by the Indiana Pacers.<\/p>\n
The 2022-23 Most Valuable Player was playing only his sixth game of the season after missing the start of the campaign with a knee injury and serving a ban for an altercation with a reporter in the locker room.<\/p>\n
He was struck accidentally near his cheekbone as the Pacers’ Bennedict Mathurin leapt for a rebound in the second quarter at Wells Fargo Center.<\/p>\n
Embiid received treatment on the court and did not return.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n