in the fourth quarter of the game against the Celtics and after the first scans . It's not a new injury for him.

he said before turning to his locker room locker and knocking on wood. "I've been there before and I know what kind of injury I'm dealing with," he said calmly. The tests he will undergo will determine more precisely how long he will be out of action.

There is not much concern. We will go day by day

LeBron James

. Now they face a tough schedule. They are on a road trip with three games remaining, with . The games against the Nuggets could define their chances in the Conference..

"Getting injured at this time... Those groin injuries, I don't want to say they're the worst, but they're hard to deal with. He'll have to take his time and we have to have a team mentality," lamented , whose weight on the team will increase exponentially with LeBron's absence. "We've had a lot of situations where a player has been affected by some kind of injury or a trade or whatever and we've done a great job of recovering. I don't expect anything different," said .

. At 40 years old, he had numbers very similar to when he was MVP 11 seasons ago and had just surpassed 50,000 points in his career between the regular season and playoffs. Now, . "We just have to keep playing hard and defending," coach JJ Redick recommended.

said LeBron, who will not return to Los Angeles and will finish the tour with the rest of the team. He believes that the next games will be good to continue building chemistry: "We have to keep developing our habits. We are not where the Celtics, the champions, are. They have been playing together for a long time and know what they want to do.