LeBron James suffered a groin strain Saturday night that forced him out the Los Angeles Lakers’ loss to the Boston Celtics and threatens to complicate the team’s push to the playoffs. Midway through the fourth quarter of Boston’s 111-101 victory at TD Garden,

With the Lakers down by 18 points in the fourth, the Celtics' Jayson Tatum blew past James and drove to the basket for a layup. Tatum made some minimal contact with James and may have grazed James's chin with his right elbow, but James—ever the league veteran—expertly sold the foul:

If that wasn't bad enough, they also lost LeBron James to a groin strain during the fourth quarter just when it seemed as if they were possibly about to pull off a monumental comeback victory. James is expected to miss at least one to two weeks as a result of the injury,