LeBron posts first message since exiting game due to injury: ‘I’m hurt inside and out right now’

James posted to Twitter shortly after having to exit the Lakers-Hawks game with a bad ankle sprain.

LeBron James exited the Lakers game on Saturday with what appeared to be a bad right ankle injury after colliding with the Hawks’ Solomon Hill.

As my colleague Bryan Kalbrosky noted, it’s been over two years since James had to exit a game due to injury, and it’s happened exceedingly rarely over the course of his lengthy, sure-to-be-Hall-of-Fame career.

And the injury doesn’t appear good. The team announced that James will be out indefinitely with a right high ankle sprain.

After the game, James took to social media to post his first thoughts since having to leave the game, saying he was “hurt inside and out.” Fear not though, Lakers fans, he also said that he would be “back soon.”

The Lakers currently sit in third place in the NBA Western Conference with a 28-14 record.

[mm-video type=video id=01f0kk96vgadexh8mc playlist_id=none player_id=none image=https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/video/thumbnail/mmplus/01f0kk96vgadexh8mc/01f0kk96vgadexh8mc-d09cd66430444942e9d6d6c25da90c76.jpg]