LeBron James originally suffered a foot tendon injury on Feb. 26, and has missed all 13 games since then, being listed as “out” for all of them outright. But on the Lakers injury report the team submitted ahead of their matchup vs. the Chicago Bulls on Sunday, James has been upgraded for the first time, being listed as “doubtful” with the same “right foot soreness” the organization has been holding him out with.
As beat reporter Kyle Goon of the O.C. Register noted, this has often been the signal that James is getting close to a return during his Lakers tenure:
Made a note the other day when LeBron refuted his reported timeline (https://t.