LeBron James will be out of action at least for a month bit the Lakers are not dwelling on his absence.

Luka Doncic, however, doesn’t think that this is going to change the big picture for the team.

“It’s a big change,” Doncic said of having to play without James. “He’s a great player. He can help us a lot. But at the end of the day, our mentality needs to be ‘next man up.’ We got a group of guys that have been practicing and hopefully LeBron can join us as soon as possible. We are going to obviously need him. But our mentality has got to be ‘next man up.’ That’s it.”

Asked if he needs to do more without LeBron, the Slovenian star responded that this is not his mindset.

“ I don’t view it that way,” Doncic said after Saturday’s practice. “I just want to play basketball. If I do

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