There are a lot of skeptics of the Los Angeles Lakers' 2020 NBA Championship. Some people want to put an asterisk on the victory. Others like to claim that it was the hardest NBA Championship ever. One thing that everyone can agree on is that it was weird. No fans, nowhere to really celebrate, it is one of the oddest championships the NBA has ever had.
Every now and then, the players from that 2020 team will speak out on what it was like playing in the bubble during those 2020 Finals. Key role player, Danny Green, joined the Legends of Sport podcast and admitted that the 2020 championship wasn’t as great as it should have been.
“We enjoyed the time, but said also was short-lived because the next season circled right around the next six weeks. We won in like mid October and then early December was like, “All right, we got to get back to work because we got to get this thing rolling by Christmas… It was more relief than celebrating it, finally we’re done, we can get out of here. I couldn’t imagine losing and having to go that far, be there for that long. I’d be highly upset. It was more of a relief winning it than it was like a celebration of like, “Oh, we achieved something.” It was like, “Damn, we get to go home finally.”
While Green isn’t saying that the Lakers' championship wasn’t legit, it sounds like it wasn’t as enjoyable a win as it could have been.
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Luckily for Green, he has two other NBA championships, so nobody feels bad that one of them didn’t feel as enjoyable.
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