LOS ANGELES – One of the NBA’s greatest modern rivalries will be missing a big variable in its Hall of Fame equation when the Warriors visit the Lakers in the season opener on Tuesday.

Steph Curry, as he has for the now 17 consecutive seasons, will lead the Warriors against the NBA’s glitziest franchise.

But LeBron James, who famously battled Golden State in four consecutive NBA Finals in the 2010s and a decade ago engineered a comeback from down 3-1 in the 2016 Finals, will not share the floor with his longtime nemesis.

The 40-year-old James is battling sciatica, and the nerve pain is expected to keep him out past the opener, so the Warriors will tweak their approach in Los Angeles.

“You don’t have to go through your ‘LeBron rules,’ which are the things he does that are basically ungu

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