LOS ANGELES — Arguably the best player in NBA history will not suit up against the Warriors on Tuesday evening.

LeBron James has been ruled out of the Warriors-Lakers season-opener in Los Angeles as he continues to deal with sciatica, which causes nerve pain in the lower back and upper legs.

The superstar will be re-evaluated in early November, which means the league’s all-time leading scorer (42,184 points) is guaranteed to miss anywhere from the first five to nine games of the Lakers’ regular season.

“We knew that he was dealing with the nerve irritation,” Lakers coach JJ Redick said during the preseason. “You hope that he’s back soon. Those things can be tricky. We knew this going into camp, so it wasn’t like it’s changed anything for how we want to practice or what our philosophies

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