User:EmmaCoop/Lakers–Heat rivalry

The Los Angeles Lakers–Miami Heat rivalry is a minor feud that has been fueled by fifty total games between the two teams and inter-conference All-Star games.

2012–13
The 2012–13 season for the Lakers were tainted by multiple injuries for the team's players. In the second game of the season, the recently acquired point guard, Steve Nash, suffered a non-displaced fracture in his left leg after a collision with Trail Blazer Damian Lillard. As a result, Nash was out of the team's lineup for almost seven weeks. Then in January, Pau Gasol and Dwight Howard suffered a concussion and an injured right shoulder respectively.