CLEVELAND, Ohio - LeBron James is doing more than just removing Twitter follows. He has also removed his sound system.

Before every game, James blasts his Beats Pill portable speaker in the locker room. The music is turned up so loudly that the volume fills the room and instantly becomes the pregame music for all the players who are sitting at their locker stalls.

Those who wish to enjoy their own musical preference tend to relocate elsewhere.

James, intentionally or not, serves as the team's honorary pre-game DJ. His teammates have grown accustomed to it and it fact, some look forward to what he might have in store on the playlist that night.

This is routine.

But before Monday's game against the Denver Nuggets, James was a music hog. He had his headphones on and wasn't in the mood to interact much with teammates or reporters.

Confused to why he wasn't bumping his music, Channing Frye and Jordan McRae got his attention at different times during reporters' pregame availability to ask what he was listening to. James responded, but you could tell he wasn't going to be having a full-blown conversation.

They tried to get him to let them hear, and he politely declined.

Frye told cleveland.com he took James' behavior as a method of trying to set the tone.

"I think for him, I kind of told him this is an empathetic locker room, so as a leader, people are going to kind of take on your personality, take on your vibe for the game," Frye said. "So for me, I like it when he's like that. I understand there's some games you can't be like that all the time, but some games you've got to send a message to rest of the guys that, 'Hey, this game means a little bit more than the other ones.'"

Going into Monday's game, Cleveland had split its last four and had been struggling defensively. On Saturday they were destroyed in Miami, but followed it up with a rout of the Nuggets by a score of 124-91 at The Q.

"He shouldn't have to do that all the time and we should be able to focus when the music is loud and we're having fun," Frye told cleveland.com, "but he has to roll with his personality and we're rolling with him."

Who knows how long James will refrain from allowing his teammates to enjoy his musical collection? But as long as it produces outcomes like Monday's, everyone will probably get over it.