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LOS ANGELES, Calif. Dries Mertens Belgium Jersey . - With Dwyane Wade in the locker room and Chris Bosh enduring a nightmare of a shooting night, the Miami Heat still found the defensive moxie to finish an unlikely Staples Center sweep.Mario Chalmers scored nine of his 19 points in the fourth quarter, and Hassan Whiteside added 15 in Miamis 78-75 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night.Bosh scored eight points on 4-of-17 shooting for the Heat, who followed up their surprise victory over the Clippers two days ago with their first back-to-back victories in 24 games since Nov. 23 — a stunning statistic for the four-time defending Eastern Conference champions.When you dont win two games in a row for a while, you appreciate stuff, Bosh said. It was a little ugly at times. My shot wasnt falling. But we stuck with it, no matter what happened. They made some runs, and we answered.With Chalmers opening up his offensive game, Miami held off the Lakers despite losing Wade to a strained left hamstring late in the first half. After the Heats 18-0 run to open the game eventually dwindled to a one-point lead, they hung in with defensive stops on Kobe Bryant and his teammates, capped by Bryants missed 3-pointer with 2 seconds left.We were doing our job defensively, Wade said. We were trying to make it tough on them. They shot jump shots. We contested. They missed a lot early. We capitalized on it. So I cant say we did anything special. We did what we had to do, what we needed to do, and we got out to a great start.Bryant scored 12 points on 3-of-19 shooting in his return to the Lakers lineup after missing three of the last four games to rest. Bryants 3-pointer with 31 seconds to play trimmed Miamis lead to three points, but he couldnt connect on his final shot.The hard part is sitting down for stretches and then trying to get back in, Bryant said. I feel like the Tin Man, you know what I mean? But thats just part of the process, part of the challenge. Its not something Im whining or complaining about. Ill just work through it and get my legs used to playing again.Bryant missed 11 of his first 12 shots, including four 3-pointers, before finally hitting a 3-pointer with 2:44 to play, trimming Miamis lead to 72-68. The Lakers missed 15 of their first 16 3-point attempts overall.Ed Davis and Jordan Hill also scored 12 points apiece for the Lakers, who have lost eight of 11.The Lakers silenced their own crowd in their fifth straight loss to Miami by missing their first 11 shots and two free throws before Bryant finally hit a jumper more than 7 1/2 minutes in.Nick Young went 2 for 11 and Wesley Johnson went 3 for 13 for the Lakers.We dug ourselves a hole, and its just hard to keep skating uphill for an entire game, Lakers coach Byron Scott said.TIP-INSHeat: Former Lakers forward Shawne Williams hit a 3-pointer and grabbed two rebounds in 3 minutes of play. ... Wade also had five assists and five rebounds. ... Chris Andersen had 12 points and eight assists.Lakers: Young has made 30 consecutive free throws. ... Newcomer Tarik Black had another impressive game in a reserve role, getting nine points and nine rebounds. ... Miguel Herrera, the manager of the Mexican national soccer team, attended the game.WADES HEALTHWade finished with four points in 14 minutes. The three-time NBA champion missed seven games in November with a hamstring strain, and his availability is uncertain for the final two games of Miamis West Coast road trip this week. I could have played the game, but I decided to be smart this time and catch it early and not make it any worse, Wade said. Since I caught it early, well take it day by day.ROUGH STARTThe Lakers got off to one of the worst starts imaginable, with all five starters combining on their miserable shooting. Los Angeles missed 18 of its 22 shots in the first quarter, yet trailed only 44-34 at halftime with a second-quarter rally.UP NEXTHeat: At Golden State on Wednesday.Lakers: Host Cleveland on Thursday. Axel Witsel Belgium Jersey . -- Chris Jones and Louisville have done a tremendous job protecting the basketball this season and thats led to easy victories. 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As shed move past one, another would surface. In the end, it was too much, even for Vonn, the most accomplished U.S. ski racer in history. Expected to be one of the biggest stars at the upcoming Games, Vonn announced Tuesday -- exactly one month before the opening ceremony -- she wont be able to race in Russia. In a Facebook posting, Vonn said she is "devastated" to miss the Olympics, "but the reality has sunk in that my knee is just too unstable to compete at this level." Her personal publicist, Lewis Kay, said in a statement the 29-year-old from Vail, Colo., will have knee surgery again "shortly." Like many in her risk-filled sport, Vonn has dealt with injuries often, particularly at major events. She withdrew midway through the 2011 world championships because of a concussion. She raced with a severely bruised shin at the last Olympics. She skipped a race at the 2009 worlds after slicing her thumb open on a champagne bottle. She hurt her knee in training and missed a pair of races at the 2007 worlds. She took a scary fall during training at the 2006 Olympics, then left the hospital to compete. "Shes come back. Shell be back," Vonns father, Alan Kildow, said in a telephone interview. "Youll see a lot of Lindsey Vonn in the future." Vonn left the 2010 Vancouver Games with two medals: the first Olympic downhill gold for an American woman, and a bronze in the super-G. She is also a four-time overall World Cup champion, by far the most recognized name in Alpine skiing at the moment -- and, as it happens, the girlfriend of Tiger Woods. Add it all up, and she would have been the focus of plenty of media coverage in Sochi, certainly a main character in NBCs coverage for a U.S. audience. "Lindsey gives you great promotional value, and shes an amazing athlete and an amazing story," said Gary Zenkel, president of NBC Olympics. "But there are amazing athletes that are going to be in Sochi, many of which we know, some of which we havent identified yet." To those in the world of skiing, theres no doubt about the sports most important athlete of late. "Without Lindsey Vonn, the races are just not the same," Canadian womens Alpine coach Hugues Ansermoz said last month. "She just attracts so much interest. When Lindsey Vonn is here, there are more people coming to watch the race, there is more interest on TV, more journalists are interested. And her relationship with Tiger Woods makes even more people interested." But Vonn has rarely been present on the elite skiing circuit the past 12 months. She tore two ligaments in her right knee and broke a bone in that leg during a high-speed crash at the world championships last February. As Vonn neared a return, she re-tore her surgically repaired ACL in a crash during training in November. After finishing 40th, 11th and fifth in a trio of World Cup races at Lake Louise, Alberta, in early December, Vonn sprained her MCL during a downhill at Val dIsere, France, two weeks later. Leander Dendoncker Belgium Jersey. "I did everything I possibly could to somehow get strong enough to overcome having no ACL," Vonn said Tuesday via Facebook. "Im having surgery soon so that I can be ready for the World Championships at home in Vail next February," she wrote. "On a positive note, this means there will be an additional spot so that one of my teammates can go for gold." Mikaela Shiffrin, the reigning world champion in slalom, and Julia Mancuso, a three-time Olympic medallist , will now draw extra attention as American women trying to reach the Alpine skiing podium in Sochi. Top skiers from other countries who will be favoured for medals include Germanys Maria Hoefl-Riesch, Switzerlands Lara Gut, Slovenias Tina Maze and Liechtensteins Tina Weirather. Shiffrin, the U.S. teenager labeled the "next Vonn" by some, wrote on Twitter that its "hard to swallow" that Vonn wont be competing in Sochi. Another American racer, Stacey Cook, posted on Facebook: "Our team is not the same without you. You leave big shoes to fill." After skiing in two downhills and a super-G at Lake Louise last month, Vonn sounded optimistic, declaring she would be in Sochi, "fighting for my medal." But shortly thereafter in France -- with Woods watching in the finish area -- Vonn lost her balance. Her left ski lifted, forcing weight onto her right knee. She grimaced, then clutched that leg. Kay said Tuesday an MRI "showed an MCL sprain, which coupled with the torn ACL, has made it impossible to stabilize her knee and be ready to safely ski again next month." Now Vonn will turn her attention to the 2015 world championships in Colorado. Theres also this: She needs three wins to match the World Cup record of 62 race victories set by Annemarie Moser-Proell of Austria. "I have every ounce of confidence that Lindsey will be in the starting gate next World Cup season, ready to compete," said Bill Marolt, the CEO and president of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association. "She knows the hard work it takes to get to the top and still has significant goals to achieve in what has been an incredible career." U.S. racers captured eight Alpine medals four years ago, their highest total at any Olympics and twice as many as any other country at Vancouver. That figure may be tough to reach with Vonn sidelined and Bode Miller, who won three medals in 2010, trying to return to form at age 36 after left knee surgery. Whats more, Mancuso has been struggling this season. Off to a poor start in pre-Olympic races, Mancuso recently headed home for a short break. "We have a strong team that is well prepared. ... Now is the time for those athletes to step up," Marolt said. Vonn, meanwhile, will go through another operation, another rehab, another road back. 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