Lakers News: Why The Miami Heat's Game 7 Win Vindicates LA

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Your Los Angeles Lakers and their least-favorite rival, the Boston Celtics, both fell into 0-3 holes during their respective Conference Finals series.

The seventh-seeded Lakers were promptly swept by the top-seeded Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals, a defeat that started to look worse as the Celtics clawed their way to a 3-3 series record to force a Game 7.

With the Miami Heat's definitive 103-84 Game 7 road victory over Boston Monday, the all-time record of NBA teams to rally back from 0-3 deficits in best-of-seven NBA series remains at 0-151. 

Had Boston, easily the more talented team on paper (although All-NBA Heat swingman Jimmy Butler was probably the best player in the series), actually made a full rally and won four in a row, the optics for LA to not even swipe a game from the Nuggets would have looked that much worse.

As it stands now, the Lakers do still look like the weaker club of the four, though that is liable to change depending on just how badly the heavily-flavored Denver (-400 odds) flattens Miami, just the second eighth seed to ever make the NBA Finals.

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