LeBron James will play his first organized game as a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday night at TD Waterhouse Centre in Orlando.

	LeBron hits the court for 'real' in summer league action Tuesday night.

A crowd of more than 10,000 is expected to watch James on the first night of the Pepsi Pro Summer League, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

At last count, 8,200 tickets have been claimed for the tripleheader that includes teams from Cleveland, Detroit, Miami, Milwaukee, Minnesota and Orlando. Three thousand Magic season-ticket holders will use free tickets to attend. An additional 5,200 tickets have been sold for $5 each, with those proceeds going to the Orlando Magic Youth Foundation. The Magic also have issued 108 media credentials for the event.

The magnitude of the audience will allow James to begin his career in fitting fashion. It's part of the reason he has reached almost $100 million in endorsement deals before playing a regular-season game. Despite the pressure to fulfill all of the hype, James is comfortable on the court, the place he loves to be. Three practices into NBA life, and he's still smiling.

"I think I'm pretty good," James told the Sentinel, sitting on a table after a two-hour workout Sunday, answering a question about handling all the attention. "I don't know. You tell me. Am I pretty good? I'm pretty good with it. I'm pretty all right with it."

James' debut will be the first of many tests the rookie will face in his first NBA season. He seems excited by that challenge.

"There's a lot of doubters out there that I have to prove wrong," James told the Sentinel. "But that just comes from me working hard and playing the game the way I've been doing my whole high school career and carrying it on to the next level."

The Cavaliers want the 6-foot-8 James to play point guard, the team's weakest position during its 65-loss season last year. That campaign allowed the Cavs to draft the phenom with the first pick in last month's draft.

"The young fella knows how to play and that was encouraging," coach Paul Silas said Saturday. "The reads he did in our halfcourt offense were just excellent."

James has been impressive in his first few practices. Now he will try to hone his game on the next closest level to the NBA. He expects to be a bit rusty. Before Saturday, the last time he practiced with a team was March 22, the day before he led St. Vincent-St. Mary High School of Akron, Ohio, to a state championship.

"We'll see what happens on Tuesday," he said. "Right now, we're just learning. We're not trying to judge us by a summer league game. We have to wait until the season starts."