No player in league history has made it to the first day of training camp in their 23rd season, which LeBron did on Tuesday. However, he and the Lakers are focused on the end of the season, not the beginning.

LeBron did not participate in the first practice of the season on Tuesday. Officially, he was out with nerve irritation in his glute — go ahead and fire off your favorite joke — but it doesn’t sound like he or the Lakers had many ideas of him practicing even coming into the year.

“Obviously, in year 23, uncharted territory here,” head coach JJ Redick said after practice. “I felt…he probably did too much last year in camp, which was great for me as a first-year head coach to get buy-in from him. But it’ll be a slower process with him leading into the first game. He’s obviously got 22

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