LeBron James will be back in the lineup Friday night in Philadelphia after missing two games to heal his body.

James said he is looking forward to coming back and is glad he was able to get a week of rest.

"I'm always a guy who wants to play every game, but I think now looking back it was definitely the right decision to give the injuries I had some rest," James said. "It's not often you can look in the schedule and get a week off and only miss two games, so we took advantage of it."

During his absence, James watched NBA games on a wall of televisions in the basement of his home in Akron, Ohio.