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Feb 20, 2021; Los Angeles, California, USA; Los Angeles Lakers head coach Frank Vogel (right) talks to his team during a timeout in the fourth quarter of the Lakers 96-94 loss to the Miami Heat at Staples Center. Mandatory Credit: Robert Hanashiro-USA TODAY Sports | Courtesy: Reuters
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Feb 20, 2021; Los Angeles, California, USA; Los Angeles Lakers head coach Frank Vogel (right) talks to his team during a timeout in the fourth quarter of the Lakers 96-94 loss to the Miami Heat at Staples Center. Mandatory Credit: Robert Hanashiro-USA TODAY Sports | Courtesy: Reuters
The Miami Heat completed their league double against the champions Los Angeles Lakers in their most recent game. The Lakers were missing two of their biggest superstars in LeBron James and Anthony Davis. Despite this, they were pretty much neck and neck with the Heat before the Eastern Conference champions pulled through on the fourth quarter for a 110-104 victory.
Given that the Heat were beaten by the Lakers in six games in the NBA finals, these two regular season victories are certainly an amazing way to take some sort of revenge.
The Heat were understandably stoked with the victory. After the victory, the official Miami Heat page took to twitter and posted a viral video of former NFL superstar Brandon Marshall with the caption, “IF WE WOULDA BEEN HEALTHY!…” This was certainly a shot at the Lakers fans arguing about the injury woes the team had going into this game.
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“IF WE WOULDA BEEN HEALTHY…” – #HEATTwitter 😂 #WINNING pic.twitter.com/gVtWxgZ3zz
— Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) April 9, 2021
The Lakers are hard hit with the injury bug lately. Minor injuries to the calf and the Achilles took its toll on Anthony Davis, who hasn’t played a single game in the last two months. The 6’10” center might be back in a couple of weeks.
Superstar LeBron James meanwhile suffered from a freak high ankle sprain and is scheduled to return on about a month. Given that they are missing some of their biggest names and have a pretty tough schedule ahead of them, they might slip up in the league standings.
Lakers’ fans rip into the latest Heat post
Understandably the Laker Nation were not thrilled by the latest tweet by the Miami Heat. From fans calling out the Heat for their poor show at the finals last year to questioning their success without LeBron James in the first place, the Laker nation had their unique way to roast the Miami Heat.
The Heat if Bron never joined pic.twitter.com/yfovy0OYwg
— YPC Slime (@ypcslime8) April 9, 2021
Not even a lakers fan but L post😭there literally the team that beat yall in the finals
— yo (@SportsTake8) April 9, 2021
Lol how was the finals last year?
— Anthony #Back2BackSZN (@ItsdFuZed) April 9, 2021
congrats pic.twitter.com/I18mKn2GTY
— Silver Screen and Roll (@LakersSBN) April 9, 2021
Imagine bragging about a regular season game, but your mouth is closed about the playoffs pic.twitter.com/0YQVVrAZ7u
— SpongeBob`s Burner (@StewieGriffinAc) April 9, 2021
Imagine celebrating a regular season win against an unhealthy team… The season after losing the finals to that team 😂😂😂
— Rogue (@Rogue_slate) April 9, 2021
Wasn’t that your argument in The Finals? 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/dFnXROGas7
— NLB 🏆🐍 (@NBALAKERSBLOG) April 9, 2021
— 🤟🏽💯 (@LakeShowSule24) April 9, 2021
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I mean imma die hard fan but we would’ve got fucking smacked if AD and Bron played be realistic
— nicholas david (@NickThedavids06) April 9, 2021
A .500 really tryna talk smack? 🥺 How cute pic.twitter.com/2cNdH4Q8Ye
— LeChampions👑 (@lakerstud) April 9, 2021
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A possible finals rematch between the Lakers and the Heat will be absolutely amazing to see this season. While the Lakers are still favorites for the West, considering how talented the Nets have become, the Heat might face a tough task to come out of the East. Will we a see a Heat-Lakers finals rematch this year?
