If you have been to Staples Center to watch the Los Angeles Lakers play, or better yet to the old Fabulous Forum, you can surely hear the regal voice of both buildings in your head while reading this very sentence.

There has always been a memorable majesty in the way the club’s longtime public-address announcer, Lawrence Tanter, has welcomed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or Kobe Bryant or the Laker Girls onto the floor.

For nearly four decades, Tanter’s delivery has been classy and soulful. It stays with you.

Perhaps that is why, with NBA teams set to open training camps Tuesday, I can’t stop imagining what it will sound like the first time Tanter ushers LeBron Raymone James into a Lakers home game.

“That question has been thrown my way with a great deal of regularity over the last couple months,” Tanter acknowledged in a recent phone interview.

Tanter, for the record, has not been practicing his LeBron introduction all summer. His offseason focus is honing trickier pronunciations — understandable given that another new Laker is Ukrainian rookie Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk.

The 68-year-old Tanter presumably does not need the practice. It is bound to come naturally for such an accomplished practitioner of his craft — one of the few remaining holdovers from the Lakers’ Showtime past.

There is more uncertainty in trying to forecast what James’ first season in purple and gold realistically holds. How will he cope with the rigors of the no-nights-off Western Conference? After eight consecutive trips to the NBA Finals, can he stomach the battle ahead just to reach the postseason in the unforgiving West? And is he truly prepared to share a locker room with a longtime nuisance named Lance Stephenson?

The safe bet: None of the above will flow as smoothly as Tanter’s intros.

For the Lakers, of course, these are all welcome curiosities. The drama, scrutiny and mammoth expectations that come with signing James away from his home-state Cleveland Cavaliers are all standard accouterments for Hollywood’s team. The Lakers typically import their stars rather than draft them — the franchise itself was brought in from Minneapolis in 1960 — so the script is not terribly new, even in the wake of a club-record five straight seasons without a playoff berth.

For James, though, Monday’s scheduled introduction to the local news media will formally thrust him into an unusual position. You have to go all the way back to the 2004-05 season, his second NBA campaign, for the last time he started a season with a team more likely to miss the playoffs entirely than win the championship.

So it is still hard for some of us to buy into the idea that King James, who turns 34 in December, willingly took himself out of the league’s title mix — even just for one season of rebuilding — by choosing the Lakers. For all of his family’s (and his own) fondness for Tinseltown, as well as the obvious appeal of working alongside a team president in Magic Johnson who can surely understand him better than any other, it figures to be a long and testing wait for James until the Lakers can build a title-worthy supporting cast around him — most likely July 2019 at the earliest.

In the interim? James cannot possibly be as OK with his Year 1 hand as he seemed to be in a recent interview with beIN Sport, in which he listed five teams not named the Lakers as the most legitimate contenders in pursuit of Golden State: Houston, Oklahoma City, Boston, Philadelphia and Toronto.

Can he?

“I’m not one that thinks being in the West is such a disadvantage,” said Dahntay Jones, who played alongside James in Cleveland during their playoff runs in 2016 and 2017 before moving into television. “The West is actually easier on your mindset and your body, your morale. It’s warm. Practicing every day in L.A., it just puts you in a better mood. I think that’s going to make a big difference for him.”

The wait for firm answers is mercifully fading. The Lakers play the Denver Nuggets in an exhibition game in San Diego on Sept. 30 — and Tanter will be in the building because the Lakers like to take their entire game-operations show on the road as often as possible in the preseason.

Even if the latest megastar to arrive in Lakerland does not get extended doses of playing time until the real games, fear not: The regular-season opener in Portland on Oct. 18 is less than a month away.

There is frankly too much to monitor as the NBA machine cranks back up, from the Raptors’ gamble on Kawhi Leonard to the Celtics’ reacquaintance with the back-from-injury stars Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward to the Rockets’ contention that one Texas team really is big enough to house James Harden, Chris Paul and Carmelo Anthony. There is even an enticing trade saga to track already — Jimmy Butler’s desire to bolt Minnesota for a bigger market — before we can even start pondering how the rehabilitating DeMarcus Cousins will look in a Golden State lineup alongside Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green.

Yet you can count on LeBron, despite all that competition for attention, to soak up much of the early-season oxygen. It simply doesn’t get much noisier than the Lakers, after what constitutes half a decade of suffering by their standards, acquiring yet another all-time great.

“I always gave him a little flavor because he deserved it,” Tanter said of his years introducing James as a member of the visiting team from either Cleveland or Miami.

“But there’s obviously going to be a little bit more timber in my voice for a Laker.”