The 2012-13 season was a disastrous one for the Los Angeles Lakers. They went into it thinking they had assembled a superteam after trading for Dwight Howard and Steve Nash and adding them to a lineup that already featured Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol.
But instead of winning another NBA championship, the Lakers’ season dissolved before their eyes amidst a gnarly rash of injuries, including the torn Achilles that was the beginning of the end of Bryant’s career.
