LeBron James had a bit of advice Saturday for fans who are expected an exciting, high-scoring, offensively efficient playoff series between his Miami Heat and the Chicago Bulls: watch the Western Conference finals instead.

"I can definitely see points in the game when it's not going to be fun for fans to watch if you love exciting basketball because it's going to be offensive struggles sometimes," James said Saturday as the Heat wrapped up preparations in Miami and traveled to Chicago for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals on Sunday. "It's going to be two great defensive teams [that] take pride defensively, [teams that] get more out of getting stops than they do in scoring."

With two of the league's top-rated defensive teams set to matchup for the right to advance to the NBA Finals, James knows that points will be at a premium. But he's not expecting a relative shutout, either.

"Someone has to score," James said. "I don't want it to be a Big Ten showdown out here. At some point, someone has to score."