2020 NBA Bubble Ball Finals: Lakers vs Heat - Who You Got?

yeah, they're not hatable outside of dwight. they trigger indifference.

i guess jared dudley is getting a ring, that's nice.

this lakers squad is, like, the hewlett packard of teams, who gives a shit

idk any team with a morris brother can inspire the hate

None of you like LeBron?

i don't think my feelings about lebron can be summed up in a single word such as "like"

<3 Bron fuck da h8ers

i admire lebron of course but not in an "it's okay for him to get the lakers a championship" sorta way

Clay otm

I’m going to enjoy every minute of LeBron and don’t understand people who don’t.

He's great, feel lucky to have seen him play basketball, don't know what more you'd want

It is weird how he's just played at this amazing level forever, never really done anything bad off the court, did a lot of great things in the community, and basically seems like a decent guy and people have this weird animus towards him

Yet weirdo miserable sociopaths like Jordan and Kobe are universally loved

(talking general public more than ilh )

i respect lebron hugely as a player and as a person (from what i can see from a distance). i think he's comported himself about as well as anyone possibly could in has position as the most important basketball player for the last 18 years.

as a sports fan i think this stage of his career is boring and inorganic and it's hard for me to feel much of anything about it.

Vogel looks like a total dork.

Xxxpost Always respected MJ's talent, but christ he's a petulant dude

Including continuing to push the lie that his coach "cut" him from the basketball team in high school

and i don't think it's even totally lebron's doing! the current structure of the nba made this the best path to a title for him and he took it.

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cad completely otm

hahaha i've been in and out but did they not let rob pelinka talk?

Lebron should probably go in the HoF as a player and GM

very convenient when you can fit the GM and finals MVP into the same interview slot

i think pelinka got 7th place for exec of the year and he should be thankful it was that high tbh

sup @MichelobULTRA 😊🍾 pic.twitter.com/CxTcoiWqOW

— NBA Bubble Life (@NBABubbleLife) October 12, 2020

i hope there's some champagne and the guys aren't stuck with just michelob ultra :(

the champagne of low carb beers

can't believe Giannis was not the first Antetokounmpo to get a ring

can't believe Giannis was not the first Antetokounmpo to get a ring

^hearing this in Swizz Beats's voice

I begrudgingly convinced myself I'd be ok with the Lakers winning the championship when Lebron started doing great work supporting voter enfranchisement. I'm amazed by so much of his game but don't really care for his bully ball or incessant whining.

AD is forever on my shit list for how he left nola. I'm grateful that at least his ring comes with a big fat asterisk.

It doesn’t come with an asterisk sorry.

cad completely otm

― Clay

Bubble title is absolutely an asterisk

Nah

"comes with an asterix" usually always means "i don't like the team that won", modified season or not

otm

The Lakers of all franchises were literally on the championship podium begging for people to acknowledge and respect this title lmao. Disingenuous or not, when guys like TJ Warren and Jamal Murray come crashing back down to earth and the Warriors flip that #2 pick and insert themselves back into the title race next season the "Mickey Mouse ring" and asterisk takes are definitely gonna be a thing.

All I have a problem with is the bullshit "This was the toughest path to a title EVERRRRR" nonsense that some were desperately trying to push about all of this. No, resuming without a fourth of the whole league in Orlando after a 4 month break to be wined and dined by the few remaining overworked Disney World employees that weren't laid off en masse in a luxury suite in your off hours when you aren't playing in an empty gym with no travel, in front of live webcam feeds hung up on a wall with fake crowd noise piped in over the speakers is not "The toughest obstacle to a championship in sports history", sorry.

i can buy the social isolation being hard if you didnt have family there with you.

Oh cool it's trevor

I started out not liking LeBron, then he won me over, then he annointed himself GOAT, and I'm back to not liking him.

lakers were clearly the best team and will be remembered as the rightful champions... the asterisk theory is bunk

what i was thinking about tonight is how the GOAT argument would look if there wasn’t a cap spike allowing durant to sign with the warriors. we all just accept the KD warriors as like a natural part of history but it all circles back to a historical anomaly with the cap based on a decision by the union that i think is pretty agreed upon to be regrettable in retrospect. watching those warriors-cavs finals at the time it seemed pretty clear that lebron would have won at least one if KD never ended up on the warriors. he basically had 3 years of his prime wiped out by the timing of TV rights negotiations, if you wanna discuss asterisks

good post ^

Warriors' 2nd and 3rd titles have penciled-in asterisks in my mind ... in ink for KD

going to sleep happy tonight remembering that paul pierce is pissed and every possible outcome of this finals was going to end that way

i admire lebron of course but not in an "it's okay for him to get the lakers a championship" sorta way

― Clay, Sunday, October 11, 2020 7:04 PM (three hours ago)

this is the opposite for me ... i like Bron (and AD) so much, i was actively rooting for Miami to give them trouble (and extend the season) but ultimately wanted the Lakers to win. and historically, i hate them.

what i was thinking about tonight is how the GOAT argument would look if there wasn’t a cap spike allowing durant to sign with the warriors. we all just accept the KD warriors as like a natural part of history but it all circles back to a historical anomaly with the cap based on a decision by the union that i think is pretty agreed upon to be regrettable in retrospect. watching those warriors-cavs finals at the time it seemed pretty clear that lebron would have won at least one if KD never ended up on the warriors. he basically had 3 years of his prime wiped out by the timing of TV rights negotiations, if you wanna discuss asterisks

Ends up *there

LeBron has also been the beneficiary of Adventures in Cap Space though. The Heatles were a previously unthinkable phenomenon.

He kicked off the player empowerment movement he can’t be mad at anyone doing it better than he did.

That “what if” and “asterisk” mental games are a slippery slope. Lebron could easily have two less titles too if it wasn’t for the ray allen shot and the perfect storm of events in 2016.

No asterisks either. They earned it, they were the best or 2nd best team all season.