"LeBron James didn't want to hear anything about the similarities between himself and Dwight Howard.

When I suggested that Dwight's situation is akin to what LeBron went through in Cleveland, LeBron swatted my question away like I was Muggsy Bogues trying to take him to the hole.

"He (Dwight) ain't going through what I went through," LeBron said at the Miami Heat's shoot-around Wednesday morning in preparation for the preseason finale against the Magic Wednesday night. "Don't say that. … He's nowhere near going through what I went through."

When I asked him to explain, LeBron replied. "I'll let you figure that out. … If you don't know, you might be doing the wrong job.""