The Los Angeles Lakers have been the recipient of a lot of criticism this season, but Miami Heat's LeBron James and Dwayne Wade don't believe it's as bad in comparison to what they had to go through.
In comparison to the criticism the Heat went through in 2010, the two stars say it's not even close.
"No one will ever be able to compare what we went through," James said. "Even though they're not winning and they're losing a lot of games, it's still nowhere near what we went through.
"Yeah, right. That level of magnitude was nowhere near where ours was two years ago. Nothing. Nothing compares to it."
The Lakers losing ways have them currently in the 11th position in the Western Conference standings and are now in jeopardy of missing the playoffs entirely.
"It's the Lakers," Wade said. "They're America's team. I keep saying it. They're the standard of what the NBA has been for years, Boston and the Lakers. But the Lakers are in L.A., the big market. So, from that standpoint, you understand it. You get it."
Still, with all that could go wrong for the Lakers occurring, Wade and James believe that how the Heat came together, plus James' national broadcasted decision, ensured a that the Heat would be heavily criticized from the beginning.
"Because of everything that happened in 2010 with offseason signings, it was, automatically, just a lot of negative things that was said about us," Wade said. "[Los Angeles] didn't go through that at the beginning. They didn't go through anything negative about bringing those guys together, so ours started off bad and it stayed bad for a while, and then we got better."
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