Bleacher Report – Cleveland Cavaliers small forward LeBron James is officially listed as a game-time decision for Tuesday’s home matchup with the Boston Celtics at Quicken Loans Arena due to an ankle injury. Dave McMenamin of ESPN noted James participated in the Cavs’ morning shootaround session, but the team didn’t immediately announce whether he would play in the season-opening contest.

It wouldn’t be the NBA without everyone catering to LeBron’s every whim. Dude’s always gotta make the story about him. Legit 8 hours before the game and he doesn’t know if he can play?

A source familiar with LeBron James’ thinking tells ESPN that James is a “total game-time” decision. Tuesday… https://t.co/c1EnMpSUX7

— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) October 17, 2017

Bullshit. If he has a competitive bone in his body there’s zero chance he misses this game.

Game time decision and Bron runs out of the tunnel like pic.twitter.com/gNfve01NuJ

— Double Entendre 3000 (@LebronJamesBond) October 17, 2017

Former #Cavs GM David Griffin tells us “There’s no way LeBron misses this game so the game time decision thing is nonsense.” pic.twitter.com/0TvjGVNRQ1

— SiriusXM NBA Radio (@SiriusXMNBA) October 17, 2017

He just wants to control the story, he doesn’t want all the headlines to be about Kyrie Irving coming back to Cleveland. LeBron wants it to be about LeBron. Not “the kid.”