The more I hear LJ open his mouth, the more I hear how much he has to sell his own game to make it relevant. He's a champion, so well done. You don't have to sell greatness, it sells itself
Yes, the Bulls and Jazz in 1997 had nearly identical statistics - very evenly matched. The Jazz don't get enough credit, and they're always viewed as weak competition by people who didn't watch them play. The pick-and-roll alone is a basic basketball play, but they picked teams apart with it.
The Pick and roll was eventually what killed them in the finals. Everyone and their mother knew the Jazz play because it’s just a pick and roll between Stockton and Malone. Theres a reason why MJ stole the ball nearing the end of the elimination game against the Jazz in the finals, everyone knew the play.
@@roscoeorginal that's not what killed the Jazz, it was John Stockton not being to penetrate the defense by driving and kicking, and by the Bulls stopping the run game of the Jazz by controlling the boards and pressing the ball in quarters 1 and 3. Go look at the way Stockton was able to drive and kick during the playoffs, the dude was a nuisance. Then with the long armed defenders of the Bulls Jordan, Pippen, and Rodman with big ol' 7'2 Longley waiting at the rim, he was pretty much one dimensional
@@hakeemolajuwon4352 that doesn’t discredit my point, with such a simple play and having to rely on it so heavy at times makes your offense very stagnant at one dimensional to begin with. Johnny can’t even dribble with his left hand, but sure overrate Johnny. Great regular season team, but how much has that translated to post season success? None. What happened to every other year when the Jazz wasn’t against the Bulls? An inefficient Malone and Johnny “cant dribble left handed” Stockton.
@@roscoeorginal Who TF told you that Stockton couldn't dribble left? The Jazz were an excellent fast break team, they didn't have to rely on pick and roll little buddy, that's how we all know you didn't watch that team play. Every other year that they didn't face Jordan they got handled by other all time greats like Drexler, Magic, Olajuwon, Payton, Kemp, Detlef. Do I need to teach you NBA history as well, so you can understand why your first comment makes ZERO sense and doesn't reflect what actually happened on the court?
“When I beat those 7 teams who had a combined record of 55-75 (42% winning percentage) and won the first-ever In-Season Tournament Sin-City Las Vegas Nevada Championship plus I beat the 5th-seed (44-29) Miami Heat to win the BLM Mickey Tricky Disney Orlando Florida Bubble Championship, those two right there made me the greatest player of all-time.” - LeBron James 💪
If I'm not mistaken, a good chunk of the teams the lakers beat were determined based on how the other teams were performing in the tournament right? They beat the suns, then the pelicans who just beat the kings. Then they beat the pacers, who beat both the celtics and the bucks. All those teams got into the tournament based on record in the tournament.
how are you to talk about how “fraudulent” a ring is when you haven’t even played one minute of professional basketball in your life? he’s been to 2 nba finals, i trust his opinion more than “uncut hoops” over here
I remember all the players trying to shut down the season and Lebron being PISSED about it. He knew from gate that it was an opportunity for him that he wouldn't get again.
-- that additional rest helped AD the most during the bubble chip. I think older teams during the bubble run had the most to gain over young guys. That REST and being more mature to handle the pandemic would benefit older (and injury prone) players.
So it's his fault that other players didn't wanna come do their job? So if you go to work ready to work and the next man comes in and don't wanna work is that ur problem?
To me, anyone who won the 2020 championship would have been fraudulent due to no travel and lack of crowd pressure. What makes the playoffs great is responding to crowd pressure.
@@andrewcook1246your not making the argument you think your making. Your comment is like when Jordan Poole tried to do the curry look away 3 pointer, and missed.
@@MR.__G Everyone rested the same amount. You are complaining that everyone was fresh for the playoffs when the biggest complaint any fan has about the game and playoffs is how teams are usually tired and injured and the season is unecesarily long. Again, Kobe is rolling over in his damn grave.
So, a two week road trip staying in hotels, not being with your family and still having everything given to you is a sample size of the bubble! They had access to everything on the resort and didn’t have to pay for shit! What they really wanna say is that they couldn’t leave the hotel and go get women and bring them back to the hotel! That’s the hard part that they are talking about!
They was smashing the female media analysts. It was sort of confirmed jimmy was hitting Rachel. Eventually in a couple years a story is going to come out about a player or 2 was smashing malika Andrews during the bubble 😅
They stayed in the most expensive resorts in Florida, on Disney property. I live in Florida, there was no lockdown and nobody cared about covid. Most businesses stayed open. These guys were free to do whatever they wanted.
Exactly! Especially the lies like "LeBron is a hybrid between Karl Malone and Magic! LeBron can play 1-5! LeBron carried bums!" Took lebron 20 seasons just to catch Magic in assists yet is still not even top 30 in rebounds after 20 seasons! None of these narratives even add up to reality
@@hakeemolajuwon4352 Yeah to match Magic while also scoring 2x as much lol. #1 in pts and #4 was it in assists. Fave facts. Also the 2nd highest ranking for a non PF or C in league history. Look if someone who lead a finals in all 5 stats can't play 1-5 then no one else can okay?
@@andrewcook1246 yeah #4 in assists while taking 20 seasons to catch Magic, and is still 1,200 assists behind and 2,100 turnovers ahead of Chris Paul, a real playmaker who played almost as many games as LeBron. Yeah he's 5,300 assists short of being #1 in assists, like 2,000 assists short of #2 in assists, and 1,200 assists short of being #3 all time in assists lol so just saying he's #4 all time in assists doesn't illustrate how far behind LeBron is from real comparisons while still not even being top 30 all time in rebounds. So he can't do anything at an all time great level, he's just lucky he got to start padding stats at age 18
@@andrewcook1246 U need to be drug tested if you assume this him can play 1to 5 something is seriously wrong with you clowns then you said points? That bum isn't even 1 in PPG. His numbers are accumulative stats, at his own position he isn't even 1 in most categories. That's why he's playing for accumulative stats. This weak stretch 5 era please, that floppin bum couldn't check a real center.
I agree. I wouldn't count it either. Just like the 2020 WS, to me it is not a legit WS since it was a 60 game season. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if it is not a full normal season, I don't think it's legit.
That is such a lie yall drinkin the funkiest cool aid. Also maybe those 50+ win teams should have adapted and idk WON? That alone tells you it was harder than a regular championship because the suppesdly good teams could not keep up except for the lakers.
@kyngdeleon5445 the amount of games isn't the cause for the asterisk. The spurs did beat teams that would have been 50 win teams. Lakers did not. Also the nba stopped the season for 4 months than continued with the Lakers championship. The 99 season they barely had a training camp than ended up playing 4 games in 5 nights just to squeeze in that 50 game season. Players today would strike if they had to do that.
My biggest problem with the bubble ring is that the Lakers cheated! They practiced as a team before everyone went to the bubble when no one was allowed! No one else got to practice before the bubble but the lakers! Of course they won!
Racists ransacked his room before. Can't remember if it was his home or motel room, but whatever it was it was a place he was supposed to have privacy and sleep and it was ransacked to intimidate him.
Yeah, that's a good point. Bill Russell having to concentrate on hoops while having people break into his home and defecate on his bed, having to find hotels and restaurants on the road that served Blacks in the middle of the civil rights era is nothing compared to having to stay at Disney World with every amenity at your finger tips, no hostile fans to deal with after having a break from playing for several months. Yeah, those guys in the bubble had it rough!
EVERYTHING "Uncut Hoops" said about the 'competition' in the east for the Cavs in 2016 being very weak, i agree with AND i believe the SAME EXACT THING SHOULD BE said about the [OVERrated] 2007 Cavs run to the finals!
@@izzy2802 Barkley averaged 27 and 13 and had 3 teammates average over 15ppg that series. If MJ just averaged his regular season 32ppg the Suns win that series no doubt. It is crazy that MJ shot 50% that series. It doesn't get talk about enough as a great Final. Glad you brought it up.
@MikeM-np4od indeed my friend, I remember Dan Mejerle went nuts and dumus give the bulls issues. Jordan played out of his mind to willed them to that title.
Missed out on including one of my favorite clips. Steve Adams was being interviewed, and they asked him about how hard the bubble was. He said (paraphrased), "it's not that hard. We're in a resort. It's not like we're in Syria here."
I think 2016 finals series was legit a good series but, it said more about Golden State than it did about Lebron. 2020 was weak, idk why he even brought that up. Hakeem’s run to the championship was unbelievable. I think the Knicks run in 99 thru Miami, Atlanta, and then Indiana to get to the finals was way harder.
@@vintagemonte Tell us all you don't know NBA history without saying it. Hakeem was the best player in the world between 90'-95' and it wasn't even close. Tell me any player in NBA history that was #7 in points(1,995 points), #1 in rebounds(1,149 rebounds), #6 in steals(174 steals from a center), #1 in blocks(376 blocks) and didn't win MVP or DPOY! This was in 1990 when Jordan was in his prime, and by the time Jordan retired, Olajuwon was 11-5 against him.
Watch the 2016 finals again and notice how officiating changed for games 5-7. Knowing how corrupt the refs are w/ betting and how subjective each ref handled the calls for that game the outcome is real sus
GSW choked that series, plain and simple. I do think the league wanted to stretch out the series and that killed GSW's momentum, but ultimately, they choked and were exposed.
Another thing is there were players looking like all stars and superstars like TJ Warren and that was the last time we heard from him and Rajon Rondo was making 3s like he was Steph Curry he hasn't made 3s that consistently outside of the bubble
I also remember the Suns going 8-0 in the bubble, but they and the Heat showed their bubble success wasn't a fluke because both made 1 Finals appearance after the bubble.
People keep forgetting how the warriors in 2016 were down 3-1 vs the Thunder in the previous round. They weren't this unbeatable team. They were exposed in the playoffs. Not to mention the suspension, injury to Bogut, and Kyrie going off for multiple 40 point games including one of the biggest shots in nba history.
That bubble was still unfair. The lakers were allowed to practice together before a lot of other teams AND we all know LeBron and AD would not have been healthy during a full season 😂
if the lakers were allowed to train together doesn’t that mean the clippers were also allowed to? unfair is a crazy word considering there was no guarantee who would win. the clippers (sans lou williams) had a full roster with no injury problems. paul george and kawhi are also injury prone but no one says they benefitted even though they were favourites to win it all. it’s not crazy that the 1st seed with 2 top 10 players won a tournament
@@alc5742 Clippers were load managing the shit out of that season and were healthy before the shutdown. All that advantage was lost with the break, allowing glAssD and the senior citizens to rest. Moreover, go back and watch that playoffs, Clippers didnt just choke, the series was fixed. Then the Nuggets got the same treatment vs Lakers. It was the Kobe ring, and after the huge financial loss Covid caused to the league, there was no way the Lakers not be in the finals.
The bubble championship was indeed the hardest championship won. Imagine being at the hotel without your wife and kids, and having to fly in IG and OF girls instead. Tough times.
Sooooo, just like when they play any road games? So hilarious that's what deems it "hardest", but not playing against top opponents under extreme pressure lol. LeFans seriously drink any Kool-Aid their boss serves up.
The thing about the 2020 season that nobody wants to talk about is lebron and ad got to take a couple of months to rest and recover, these two players has yet show they can play majority of a season in a lakers jersey
Everyone had a couple months off. You're bitching about everyone being healthy for competition. Lakers were the #1 seed so they lost homecourt adv due to the bubble. Kobe Bryant rolling over his grave hearing his fans bitch about resting and the staying at a resort getting paid millions.
@@93vibezz I'm not the one who has 3 pair of Kobes and a Mamba Mentality poster. I also made an argument. A better one. I'm also not hyping it up as the toughest ring ever while y'all claiming it was the easiest ever. Seems like I'm rational and you have personal beef and Bron keeps all thes creators in business.
I just now seen that you included this in your video, so I tip my hat to you homie. Great video! Olajuwon's 95' championship run, he led the only #6 seed in NBA history to a ring against the 60 win Jazz with Stockton, Malone, Hornacek, Chambers, and Carr, then he beat the 59 win Sun's with Kevin Johnson, Barkley, 3x all defense Thunder Dan, then he beat the 62 win Spurs with league Rodman, league MVP David Robinson, Terry Cummings, then swept the 57 win Magic with scoring champ Shaq, Penny, and 3x champion Horace Grant!! Nobody comes close to that, especially not Lebron in any ring he's had.
You missed one important point I believe. Lebron was hurt and out for the season. The only reason he got to play was because of the five months of rest to recover. So staying healthy was a nonfactor.
Yeah just like he was playing "basically with one hand" for the 2018 Finals. There's always a narrative for LeBron. When you say LeBron is a terrible defender, fanboys immediately point to 2013 when LeBron DIDN'T WIN the DPOY! When you say he's not a great scorer, they ignore the 19 seasons where he couldn't lead the league in points, and point straight up "all time points leader" without any context or even some reasoning.
@@DanTarrant1Cuz he's not a great scorer. His points have no impact on the game. He puts up his numbers and the team loses. It's been like that his whole stinking career.
@mpound97 him and Jordan have a nearly identical win percentage in the regular season and the playoffs with lebron obviously playing more games... so try again
@@davidtigelman4653 It’s not even close. Try again. Oh you on Wizards Record? With the torn knee and still playing? Maybe Adam Silver will expand the playoffs to 12 teams per division next. I mean your boy needs help every year in that regards.
Those who criticize MJ's opponents, what is there knowledge of that era? Use the Sonics as an example. Do they realize that they had six seasons of 60 wins then. In 95-96 they had 3 home losses by 5 points in a combined total. They had 3 all stars Detlef,GP and Kemp. Nate McMillian who made an all defensive team off the bench. Hawkins who made an all star team in career along with stretch 5 in Perkins
Even their center in 96' was a solid rim protector, plus they had a tough guy coming off the bench Brickowski who was usually a solid rebounder. That 96' Sonics team was one of the best defensive teams I've ever seen in my life
@@hakeemolajuwon4352 Plus Detlef never gets mentioned. Dirk his fellow countryman looked up to him.That was my guy, 6-10 could shoot. Handle the ball and post. Their defense was tremendous
I just love how it's only being heavily criticized because it was lebron and not anybody else😅😅😅. Just give the man his props because none of ya'll would even come close to what he did. So just let the man have his ring😂😂😢😢
@user-nw2jp9zk3z The players say 2020 ring is the hardest one. Yet the "fans" and media say the opposite because they are haters. I always hear how LeBron wins because it's rigged. But when he loses, it's because he chokes. Absolutely zero consistency from bozos
Jordan played 6 weeks of basketball before even starting that series with the Magic in 95', then the Magic eliminated the Bulls that series. Olajuwon never had the opportunity to play Jordan in the Finals, but by the time Jordan retired the first time Olajuwon was 11-5 against Jordan and by the time they're careers were over, Olajuwon was 13-10 against Jordan. To put it into perspective, Olajuwon beat Jordan more times in 9 seasons than Jordan beat Olajuwon in 13 seasons
- Agree! He's a Top 3 player behind MJ and Kareem. But him tooting his own horn AND getting creamed by Dirk in 2011 and the Spurs in 2014? Yeah, if I include Russell, then Lebron is 4th best.
@@jlui21 Not even top 10 at this point. He's just padding his record and doesn't care to actually win. He is a drag on the Lakers to force to play his shitty style. He wants to be a pretend PG.
So glad you brought up the ‘20 season being a shortened season Most remember it being on a neutral court where all participants didn’t have to travel back and forth between cities….. but that ‘postseason’ being on the heels of a shortened season seems to get glossed over alot
The bubble title was hard in that many of the players found it hard to take it seriously. LeBron seems to thrive best when the stakes aren't as high. If there was an actual crowd there, things would likely have been different. Also, I've always been under the contention that the Warriors team that he loves to brag about beating was a) not near as good as they are made out to be and b) ran out of gas after beating OKC. This is ultimately why they picked up KD. I just can't see the former record holding Bulls add Karl Malone or Shaq to the team just because they were available. The Warriors adding KD had more to do with Steph and Klay coming up small in big time situations than them being so afraid of LeBron.
Not to mention the oddity of the situation in HOW Draymond was suspended, and Curry was actually coming up big in game 6 and that was when the refs kept giving him phantom foul calls and fouled him out of the game. Ayesha Curry went viral that day on Twitter for saying the Finals were rigged. Also one of their critical role players, Andrew Bogut, missed the last few games to injury and he was their primary rim protector. That's when LeBron and Kyrie both went off for 40 points.
Personally I think the Warriors were as good as we thought them to be. Else they wouldn't have been up 3-1 in the Finals. Sure they were probably tired after that 7 game series and 3-1 comeback against OKC, but I'm sure Detroit was tired after their 7-game ECF matchup with Chicago in 1990 but they still won the Finals that year. It's simply just the Cavaliers became emboldened because so many dominoes fell right for them and Warriors momentum was cut off and prevented from being revived.
I completely agree that that Warriors team is overrated asf. Ppl act like they were unstoppable when they literally went to a game 7 against CP3 and Harden the round before, and it took one of the most historic choke jobs from a team (the rockets missing a historic number of threes in a row) for the Warriors to win that game by SINGLE DIGITS.
Lakers were the firat overall seed that season. They wouldve benefitted from the crowd and other teams would have to travel more than them lol. Next lame argument please this was hilarious.
People also forget that players had the decision to sit out AND several players like Kris Middleton confessed to not even “touching” a ball in those 5 months of the break not to mention mfs were losing whole family members during this shit it was definitely a strike while the iron was hot type of situation. Also the millionaires making the bubble sound like hell while normies like us were goin through it is hilarious.
Lebron has 1 ring imo. Bubble doesn't count and Heat rings doesn't count. He had a Super team in Miami who carried him. Doesn't count like Durant's fake ass rings with the warriors. Only ring that counts is the 2016 championship.
Come on bro, I hate on the bubble ring too but you can't take the Heat rings away. There were plenty of teams capable of beating the Heat and 2 of them did! The Heatles weren't even as good as the KD warriors. You're overrating the Heatles by doing what your doing.
I hate how people pretend Lebron didn’t have a super team assembled with that Cavs team. Kyrie was an all star. Kevin Love was a true all star and lebron demanded him. They also had solid players around. That warriors team was drafted and built pretty organically at that point. That title should not have been that hard and lebron had the “bought” team. That just shows even with a super team assembled by lebron himself, only lebron can make that the “toughest championship of all time”
The biggest boost the Lakers got during the bubble season is the 5m rest. Yes, all the teams got it but you get a disproportiinate benefit when your two main guys are old (Bron) or made out of glass (AD)
You can’t take an outlying scenario with completely different variables like the bubble championship and lump it in with the rest and think they’re even remotely similar. There will likely not be another scenario similar to that in the near future. It needs to remain separated so it doesn’t poison the sample pool, which it is undoubtedly doing.
The bubble is a weird topic. I can say this for sure, I wasnt there so i can't say if it was "easy". But, the only players who say the bubble was super hard were the ones in the finals, and everyone else talks about it like they couldn't care less. Are the losers underselling it, or are the winners making a big deal about nothing? I'll never know. The way they describe it sounds like a dream scenario imo. what did bam say? other than giving them whatever thy wanted, its "you your thoughts and one room"? Sounds like basketball heaven.
What drives me crazy is that the Lakers, or at least LeBron, had it easier because they got a big break in the middle of the season to rest and recover which helps LeBron more than other players due to him being 35 at the time. So, really, the Lakers had it easier than most, if not all the other NBA teams during the bubble.
To be fair, prior to the bubble the Lakers were the number 1 seed in the west, were the number 1 ranked defense in the league, & LeBron led the league in assists (10), while also averaging 25 points & 8 rebounds. Also, I find that a lot of people like to gloss over the fact that the Lakers faced a TON of adversity, that most other teams wouldn’t have been able to overcome. Like: 1.) New roster (with the exception of only 5 players from the previous year) 2.) New Coach (Frank Vogel) 3.) Had to forfeit home court advantage in the bubble (this didn’t do the Lakers any favors, as they had one of the best W/L records at home, during the regular season) 4.) Were without their best perimeter defender (Avery Bradley) 5.) And their 3rd best player was a past his prime Rondo You mentioned the lack of competition, & as the number 1 seed, that’s generally the case. But, there were plenty of obstacles that the Lakers overcame in 2020, that didn’t apply to other teams (like the 5 examples I mentioned). Bubble aside, how many other championship teams in NBA history can you name, that won a championship their 1st year together, with a new head coach & a new team?
Don’t forget, while the entire league benefitted from a 5 month vacation in the middle of the season, no one benefited more than old man LeBron and injury-prone AD. It’s a weak championship. No doubt.
@ScaryHoursInsideLA - Think what you want. But is it a surprise that every other year besides the one with a 5 month break has been a disaster? Think about it. Not that hard to figure out, my dude.
Even Dwight Howard said the 2020 bubble title was harder to win than the 2009 Finals that he actually LOST to Kobe in. Okay you, LeBron, and Bam FEEL it was harder, but it's just weird that logically it wasn't harder than many other title runs in NBA history.
Dwight got old. I can see it being harder due to his age. I think he came back from a surgery then. So he probably remembers it as being tough for him since it was his last chance to get a ring
Lol yea that tells u all u need 2 kno kobes wins way more impressive than this new age 3 pt contest league it aint been right since Kobe n Duncan retired I swear
Lol yea that tells u all u need 2 kno kobes wins way more impressive than this new age 3 pt contest league it aint been right since Kobe n Duncan retired I swear
@@relicdad88 Everyone getting double doubles and like 30 points like hotcakes nowadays tells you all you need to know. It's not even the same game that Kobe played where there's actually attempt at some defense.
Idk I feel like isolating everyone and playing with no crowds pretty much leveled the entire playing field. Like how could you have a more neutral environment to play in? 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
@hakeemolajuwon4352 that's kinda my point. If the bubble season was so easy, and the lakers didn't actually deserve to win, than any other team should have won it, but they didn't. The lakers did. I don't see what calling someone who you've never met small adds to the conversation. Especially if you didn't understand my statement to begin with. You decided to try to insult a stranger online rather than add anything of substance to the topic.
@@NewEnglandGaming413 who said the Lakers didn't deserve to win it? Nobody said that, ever. It's your boy Lebron that is calling that ring the hardest ring in NBA history unprovoked. All we're doing is giving the facts out that easily debunk that lie.
@@NewEnglandGaming413 what came first, this response video or Lebron's comments? This video probably wouldn't have been made if Lebron hadn't said these ridiculous things, right?
How does Bam know if the bubble championship was the hardest to win ...he had never even made the finals before 2020. He still hasn't WON a championship. Does he have any other RINGS to compare it to?
Was the bubble the same as the usual play offs offs? West with 7 games series, East with 7 game series and final with 7 game series? If not the bubble is a joke. It’s not the same. I’m a doctor and it took me 4 years of medical school and a 3 year residency to start practice so a total of 7 years. Saying the Bubble was like a championship would be a like saying you’re a doctor after 1 year of school instead of the 7.
The only real argument against the bubble chip is the fact that the more "injury proned" players had a chance to rest up. The competition argument is pretty weak sauce tbh. As the Lakers cant control who they play. The Clippers(who everyone expected to meet the lakers in the west finals) blew a 3-1 lead vs The Nuggets. And the bucks who were supposed to be the team to beat in the eastern conference got demolished by the Heat. Was the bubble chip the toughest one ever? In my opinion, not so much. But if the players says it was tough for them, then I'll take their word for it. Even if they may be embellishing ever so slightly lol.
Real people were suffering during that time due to the lockdowns. hearing NBA players go woe is me for basically living in a 5 star hotel for a few months is a slap to the face and makes them really easy to hate
Kobe Bryant is rolling over in his grave. Imagine seeing the players and pundits who buy your shoes and claim to be fans yelling: "Mamba Mentality" all trying to discredit the bubble ring. Everyone had a long time to rest, no one had to travel or deal with crowds and no homecourt adv for the Lakers after they fought to get the #1 overall seed. People bitching about getting paid millions to stay in a luxury hotel a few months when yoyr job usually has you traveling 200+ days a year. Hilarious!
@@relicdad88 It was neither the easiest nor hardest* chip. It was the easiest for Bron for sure but that's cause he went up against a dynasty for 6 straight Finals.
@@andrewcook1246 that's the difference between good players like Lebron, and great players like Jordan and Olajuwon. The teams they built are considered historic, the teams Lebron built are considered overrated.
@@hakeemolajuwon4352Bron's superteams are overrated but not cause of the reason you implied. They are to me the worst superteams because Wade's knees held up for 1.5 season and was never a deep team or top of Wade and Bron being a tough fit. Love/Kyrie missed Finals and feat 0 top 75 players and he lead the team in all 5 stats when they won. Lakers? AD has been hurt a lot and is one fall away from missing 2 months at any moment.
🤓🤓- How you look hating on nba players who literally played in the bubble while you’re hating on RUclips and probably haven’t played a sport your entire life
What gets ignored is when blazers beat the lakers that first game and lebron started building in the excuse saying about the bubble that this is different!!Media never mentions how he already was building a narrative for if the blazers upset the lakers!!
Um maybe tell green that he can't kick people in the nuts and assault people like how is that lebrons fault green was a dirty player and a repeat offender who is still doing this shit yall are clowns man I don't like lebron as a player but yall discredit too much stuff
Bubble Ring Lakers has a nice ring to it. But for real it was a garbage playoffs and season. The entire season should have been cancelled, it would have been better for the integrity of the game. Also MJ is the goat, nobody has dominated an entire decade like he did.
Funny how the players even outside the teams that made the finals say it was a hard season in terms of playing. if the Warriors won, then no hate would be out there. Yall just love to hate and act like you were there on the court.
The biggest thing I remember about the 2020 bubble season was the fact that 3 of the top 4 teams in the regular season didnt make it past second round. The odds of that happening must be astronomical, it stinks of being rigged.
Weakest championships was every year Warriors won with KD. Nobody had a chance with arguably the best player in the league, joining the best team in the league.
The bubble wrap championship. How was it difficult? No away or home games. Then a bunch of millionaires. With everything that they could want. It was really just an inconvenience. Not difficult at all.
You should have included that interview with Steven Adams commenting on the "hardships" of the bubble: "It's all good, mate. Let's be clear about this - it's not Syria, mate. You know what I mean? It's not - it's not that hard. It's not that difficult, you know what I mean? We're living in a bloody resort, you know. Everyone's got a complaint, everyone has their own preferences, but, you know, it's not, it's not anything too serious. It's just a bit of dry food here and there, and get bored every now and then. But it's all good, man."
I might be a biased Lakers fan but I feel like the 2020 championship is the only Valid Championship that LeBron has won. The only time LeBron didn’t have a superteam 😂
@@quandaledingle6059 Stop lying, that was his last season and Bron wasn’t there anymore. Love Average 16/19pts and 11 Rebs as a 3rd option with Bron and Kyrie…. Plus the year before he joined LeBron, Love averaged 26pts 12 Rebs 4 ast
As an Air Force veteran, those entitled NBA stars and superstars can miss me with that. Do you know how long we’re away from our families? 6 months, a year, sometimes 2 years. We don’t get paid millions to do it and our lives are on the line. This is men and women.
The more I hear LJ open his mouth, the more I hear how much he has to sell his own game to make it relevant. He's a champion, so well done. You don't have to sell greatness, it sells itself
Exactly
Yeah, he tries way too hard. He is as conceited a person as there has ever been. It's sickening tbh
"Any man who has to tell people he's the king, is not"
@@rolieg81 He the King of flop though. 🤣🤣🤣
Leflop isn’t even in the top 20 in NBA history He’s a whinny little girl
Yes, the Bulls and Jazz in 1997 had nearly identical statistics - very evenly matched. The Jazz don't get enough credit, and they're always viewed as weak competition by people who didn't watch them play. The pick-and-roll alone is a basic basketball play, but they picked teams apart with it.
that Jazz team is often considered one of the greatest teams that didn't win a ring
The Pick and roll was eventually what killed them in the finals. Everyone and their mother knew the Jazz play because it’s just a pick and roll between Stockton and Malone. Theres a reason why MJ stole the ball nearing the end of the elimination game against the Jazz in the finals, everyone knew the play.
@@roscoeorginal that's not what killed the Jazz, it was John Stockton not being to penetrate the defense by driving and kicking, and by the Bulls stopping the run game of the Jazz by controlling the boards and pressing the ball in quarters 1 and 3. Go look at the way Stockton was able to drive and kick during the playoffs, the dude was a nuisance. Then with the long armed defenders of the Bulls Jordan, Pippen, and Rodman with big ol' 7'2 Longley waiting at the rim, he was pretty much one dimensional
@@hakeemolajuwon4352 that doesn’t discredit my point, with such a simple play and having to rely on it so heavy at times makes your offense very stagnant at one dimensional to begin with. Johnny can’t even dribble with his left hand, but sure overrate Johnny. Great regular season team, but how much has that translated to post season success? None. What happened to every other year when the Jazz wasn’t against the Bulls? An inefficient Malone and Johnny “cant dribble left handed” Stockton.
@@roscoeorginal Who TF told you that Stockton couldn't dribble left? The Jazz were an excellent fast break team, they didn't have to rely on pick and roll little buddy, that's how we all know you didn't watch that team play. Every other year that they didn't face Jordan they got handled by other all time greats like Drexler, Magic, Olajuwon, Payton, Kemp, Detlef. Do I need to teach you NBA history as well, so you can understand why your first comment makes ZERO sense and doesn't reflect what actually happened on the court?
He said they wanted to win it for Kobe and then they won it, and never acknowledged Kobe after winning talking about gimme my damn respect. SMFH
“When I beat those 7 teams who had a combined record of 55-75 (42% winning percentage) and won the first-ever In-Season Tournament Sin-City Las Vegas Nevada Championship plus I beat the 5th-seed (44-29) Miami Heat to win the BLM Mickey Tricky Disney Orlando Florida Bubble Championship, those two right there made me the greatest player of all-time.” - LeBron James 💪
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Yes i am
"...and I didn't take that personal..." - MJ The GOAT😂😂
Nailed it 🎯
If I'm not mistaken, a good chunk of the teams the lakers beat were determined based on how the other teams were performing in the tournament right? They beat the suns, then the pelicans who just beat the kings. Then they beat the pacers, who beat both the celtics and the bucks. All those teams got into the tournament based on record in the tournament.
How is Bam going to tell anybody what the hardest chip to win was, when he’s never won one under any circumstances?
how are you to talk about how “fraudulent” a ring is when you haven’t even played one minute of professional basketball in your life? he’s been to 2 nba finals, i trust his opinion more than “uncut hoops” over here
I remember all the players trying to shut down the season and Lebron being PISSED about it. He knew from gate that it was an opportunity for him that he wouldn't get again.
-- that additional rest helped AD the most during the bubble chip.
I think older teams during the bubble run had the most to gain over young guys. That REST and being more mature to handle the pandemic would benefit older (and injury prone) players.
But last year he was in the finals 😂😂😂
So it's his fault that other players didn't wanna come do their job? So if you go to work ready to work and the next man comes in and don't wanna work is that ur problem?
@oneone3983 No they were in the West Finals and got swept.
You are a liar! And it’s said. Rex do better
To me, anyone who won the 2020 championship would have been fraudulent due to no travel and lack of crowd pressure. What makes the playoffs great is responding to crowd pressure.
Lakers were the first overall seed. Next argument.
@@andrewcook1246your not making the argument you think your making. Your comment is like when Jordan Poole tried to do the curry look away 3 pointer, and missed.
Also a 5 month testing period. Enduring the 82 games in a season is apart of the journey.
@@ALmizzle415 I am. First overall seed means honecrowd and traveking favors the lakers. You're definitely a GED candidate.
@@MR.__G Everyone rested the same amount. You are complaining that everyone was fresh for the playoffs when the biggest complaint any fan has about the game and playoffs is how teams are usually tired and injured and the season is unecesarily long.
Again, Kobe is rolling over in his damn grave.
Dodgers winning the 2020 World Series also felt so meh with the shortened season and very limited fans for the WS in a neutral stadium.
So, a two week road trip staying in hotels, not being with your family and still having everything given to you is a sample size of the bubble! They had access to everything on the resort and didn’t have to pay for shit! What they really wanna say is that they couldn’t leave the hotel and go get women and bring them back to the hotel! That’s the hard part that they are talking about!
They was smashing the female media analysts. It was sort of confirmed jimmy was hitting Rachel. Eventually in a couple years a story is going to come out about a player or 2 was smashing malika Andrews during the bubble 😅
Pun intended 😂😂
They stayed in the most expensive resorts in Florida, on Disney property. I live in Florida, there was no lockdown and nobody cared about covid. Most businesses stayed open. These guys were free to do whatever they wanted.
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We must continue to stand up against the lies and the narratives!! Great work! 🤝🏾
Exactly! Especially the lies like "LeBron is a hybrid between Karl Malone and Magic! LeBron can play 1-5! LeBron carried bums!" Took lebron 20 seasons just to catch Magic in assists yet is still not even top 30 in rebounds after 20 seasons! None of these narratives even add up to reality
@@hakeemolajuwon4352 Yeah to match Magic while also scoring 2x as much lol. #1 in pts and #4 was it in assists. Fave facts. Also the 2nd highest ranking for a non PF or C in league history.
Look if someone who lead a finals in all 5 stats can't play 1-5 then no one else can okay?
@@andrewcook1246 yeah #4 in assists while taking 20 seasons to catch Magic, and is still 1,200 assists behind and 2,100 turnovers ahead of Chris Paul, a real playmaker who played almost as many games as LeBron. Yeah he's 5,300 assists short of being #1 in assists, like 2,000 assists short of #2 in assists, and 1,200 assists short of being #3 all time in assists lol so just saying he's #4 all time in assists doesn't illustrate how far behind LeBron is from real comparisons while still not even being top 30 all time in rebounds. So he can't do anything at an all time great level, he's just lucky he got to start padding stats at age 18
@@hakeemolajuwon4352 lmao i bet you erote that with a straight face.
@@andrewcook1246 U need to be drug tested if you assume this him can play 1to 5 something is seriously wrong with you clowns then you said points? That bum isn't even 1 in PPG. His numbers are accumulative stats, at his own position he isn't even 1 in most categories. That's why he's playing for accumulative stats. This weak stretch 5 era please, that floppin bum couldn't check a real center.
Jordan 98 was tough too .
Nah fam. That 2023 cup was the most difficult ever.
@@doktor3196Pippen was hurt much of that season and that finals series as well. Jordan put that Bulls team on his back.
Expose his fraudulent career. Pls
Skap Attack has tons of videos on thatm
Not one 50 win team beaten. Even if my Celtics won it that year, i can promise you i wouldn't count it.
I agree. I wouldn't count it either. Just like the 2020 WS, to me it is not a legit WS since it was a 60 game season. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if it is not a full normal season, I don't think it's legit.
That is such a lie yall drinkin the funkiest cool aid. Also maybe those 50+ win teams should have adapted and idk WON? That alone tells you it was harder than a regular championship because the suppesdly good teams could not keep up except for the lakers.
How do you feel about the NBA lock out season in 1998. Do this apply to that too?
@kyngdeleon5445 the amount of games isn't the cause for the asterisk. The spurs did beat teams that would have been 50 win teams. Lakers did not. Also the nba stopped the season for 4 months than continued with the Lakers championship. The 99 season they barely had a training camp than ended up playing 4 games in 5 nights just to squeeze in that 50 game season. Players today would strike if they had to do that.
@@ricosauve5clippers won 49 games nuggets won 46 both would’ve been 50 win teams with the extra 11 games
His rigged "in season tournament" is even worse than this.
Exactly everything LeBron has done is rigged
its not the 'IST', its the 'LeBron James Invitational Trophy'
I think it's just a coincidence that he wins a Las Vegas championship right after he said he wants to buy a team in Vegas 🤔
@@easybrezzzy479how is it rigged
My biggest problem with the bubble ring is that the Lakers cheated! They practiced as a team before everyone went to the bubble when no one was allowed! No one else got to practice before the bubble but the lakers! Of course they won!
They keep arranging the narrative so LeCryBaby doesn't get any spot but #1, and they'll keep shoving it in our throats
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 this has nothing to do with what I said. Foh spamming this shit
😂😂😂@@vicepresidentmikepence889
@DammitBobby You are correct. I just piggybacked off your comment,because you were the top comment. I'll delete my comment
Davis and Bron would have been injured and probably would’ve have made it to the playoffs without that 5 months layoff also.
That bubble title just perfectly fits Lebrons whole persona, scripted and manufactured
Bubble title, in season tournament winners.. lol it’s a whole clown show . MJ still better anyways..
how was it scripted wth lmfao
damn lebron haters
MJ's finals weren't as tough as lebrons 💀
@@NATHAN-iw2hu you're right because his entire playoff runs were way tougher than just the finals.
"The bubble was my hardest ring."
Didn't Bill Russell have to fight the Klan?
Bill Rusell was kicked out of an NBA team because of his race. that is real Hardship not millionaires crying about mythical racism.
Racists ransacked his room before. Can't remember if it was his home or motel room, but whatever it was it was a place he was supposed to have privacy and sleep and it was ransacked to intimidate him.
Yeah, that's a good point. Bill Russell having to concentrate on hoops while having people break into his home and defecate on his bed, having to find hotels and restaurants on the road that served Blacks in the middle of the civil rights era is nothing compared to having to stay at Disney World with every amenity at your finger tips, no hostile fans to deal with after having a break from playing for several months. Yeah, those guys in the bubble had it rough!
Nobody cares about bill Russell, plus what does he have to do with lebron?😂
Hardest championship according to Who???
Nick Wright. Case closed.
Adebayo said so, who is adebayo? Miami heat's Center who got destroyed by the Lakers who won that chip, you all are just haters. You all are bums 😂😂😂
Literally most nba players. But ofc you, an internet maggot would know better.
EVERYTHING "Uncut Hoops" said about the 'competition' in the east for the Cavs in 2016 being very weak, i agree with AND i believe the SAME EXACT THING SHOULD BE said about the [OVERrated] 2007 Cavs run to the finals!
93 Bulls was hard. That sun's team was better.
I agree...Jordan just went supernova averaging 41, 8, and 6 for that series but the Suns were the better team record wise too.
@MikeM-np4od agreed, homie. That series was insane.
@@izzy2802 Barkley averaged 27 and 13 and had 3 teammates average over 15ppg that series. If MJ just averaged his regular season 32ppg the Suns win that series no doubt. It is crazy that MJ shot 50% that series. It doesn't get talk about enough as a great Final. Glad you brought it up.
@MikeM-np4od indeed my friend, I remember Dan Mejerle went nuts and dumus give the bulls issues. Jordan played out of his mind to willed them to that title.
The fact that it’s always referred to as the bubble and never the 2020 finals is all you need to know
That asterisk is only gonna get bigger
Missed out on including one of my favorite clips. Steve Adams was being interviewed, and they asked him about how hard the bubble was. He said (paraphrased), "it's not that hard. We're in a resort. It's not like we're in Syria here."
I think 2016 finals series was legit a good series but, it said more about Golden State than it did about Lebron. 2020 was weak, idk why he even brought that up. Hakeem’s run to the championship was unbelievable. I think the Knicks run in 99 thru Miami, Atlanta, and then Indiana to get to the finals was way harder.
the best player wasn’t even playing when hakeem won 😂😂😂
@@vintagemonte Tell us all you don't know NBA history without saying it. Hakeem was the best player in the world between 90'-95' and it wasn't even close. Tell me any player in NBA history that was #7 in points(1,995 points), #1 in rebounds(1,149 rebounds), #6 in steals(174 steals from a center), #1 in blocks(376 blocks) and didn't win MVP or DPOY! This was in 1990 when Jordan was in his prime, and by the time Jordan retired, Olajuwon was 11-5 against him.
@@hakeemolajuwon4352 thank you so much hakeem olajuwon 4 3 5 2, you seem like a very unbiased source of information
Watch the 2016 finals again and notice how officiating changed for games 5-7. Knowing how corrupt the refs are w/ betting and how subjective each ref handled the calls for that game the outcome is real sus
GSW choked that series, plain and simple. I do think the league wanted to stretch out the series and that killed GSW's momentum, but ultimately, they choked and were exposed.
Another thing is there were players looking like all stars and superstars like TJ Warren and that was the last time we heard from him and Rajon Rondo was making 3s like he was Steph Curry he hasn't made 3s that consistently outside of the bubble
I also remember the Suns going 8-0 in the bubble, but they and the Heat showed their bubble success wasn't a fluke because both made 1 Finals appearance after the bubble.
People keep forgetting how the warriors in 2016 were down 3-1 vs the Thunder in the previous round. They weren't this unbeatable team. They were exposed in the playoffs. Not to mention the suspension, injury to Bogut, and Kyrie going off for multiple 40 point games including one of the biggest shots in nba history.
Kyrie was also there go to guy in the clutch & the stats back that up.
I also like how people swear lebron is the goat but hold steph to a higher standard for winning
Exactly!!! 👏🏽👏🏽LeBron fans act like Kyrie didn’t go beast mode in that series😂
Kyrie dropped 40 once. Lbj did it in back to back games. Kevin love also missed game 3. Save the excuses they got beat fair and square
@@atdubya9576 only dropped in one game. And 10 points in game 2 😂😂 that’s not beastmode
That bubble was still unfair. The lakers were allowed to practice together before a lot of other teams AND we all know LeBron and AD would not have been healthy during a full season 😂
if the lakers were allowed to train together doesn’t that mean the clippers were also allowed to? unfair is a crazy word considering there was no guarantee who would win. the clippers (sans lou williams) had a full roster with no injury problems. paul george and kawhi are also injury prone but no one says they benefitted even though they were favourites to win it all. it’s not crazy that the 1st seed with 2 top 10 players won a tournament
@@alc5742 Clippers were load managing the shit out of that season and were healthy before the shutdown. All that advantage was lost with the break, allowing glAssD and the senior citizens to rest. Moreover, go back and watch that playoffs, Clippers didnt just choke, the series was fixed. Then the Nuggets got the same treatment vs Lakers. It was the Kobe ring, and after the huge financial loss Covid caused to the league, there was no way the Lakers not be in the finals.
The Bubble was garbage lol.. 4 month rest, no travel, private luxury complex.
The bubble championship was indeed the hardest championship won. Imagine being at the hotel without your wife and kids, and having to fly in IG and OF girls instead. Tough times.
@mmjj good point!
Sooooo, just like when they play any road games? So hilarious that's what deems it "hardest", but not playing against top opponents under extreme pressure lol. LeFans seriously drink any Kool-Aid their boss serves up.
The thing about the 2020 season that nobody wants to talk about is lebron and ad got to take a couple of months to rest and recover, these two players has yet show they can play majority of a season in a lakers jersey
Everyone had a couple months off. You're bitching about everyone being healthy for competition. Lakers were the #1 seed so they lost homecourt adv due to the bubble. Kobe Bryant rolling over his grave hearing his fans bitch about resting and the staying at a resort getting paid millions.
@@andrewcook1246ironic that your bitching about someone’s opinion
@@andrewcook1246 tissue?
bro said nah they have too much energy to play even though everyone got the same time off 😂😂😂😂😂 ITS UNFAIR
@@93vibezz I'm not the one who has 3 pair of Kobes and a Mamba Mentality poster. I also made an argument. A better one. I'm also not hyping it up as the toughest ring ever while y'all claiming it was the easiest ever. Seems like I'm rational and you have personal beef and Bron keeps all thes creators in business.
The fact that he picked the chip where Kyrie absolutely SAVED his “legacy” and the bubble one tells you how delusional dude is🤦🏽♂️
I just now seen that you included this in your video, so I tip my hat to you homie. Great video! Olajuwon's 95' championship run, he led the only #6 seed in NBA history to a ring against the 60 win Jazz with Stockton, Malone, Hornacek, Chambers, and Carr, then he beat the 59 win Sun's with Kevin Johnson, Barkley, 3x all defense Thunder Dan, then he beat the 62 win Spurs with league Rodman, league MVP David Robinson, Terry Cummings, then swept the 57 win Magic with scoring champ Shaq, Penny, and 3x champion Horace Grant!! Nobody comes close to that, especially not Lebron in any ring he's had.
Just when I think I've heard Lebron say the dumbest things ever, he tops himself once again.
I don't know, those book reports (for books he's never actually read) he gives are pretty dumb lol.
You missed one important point I believe. Lebron was hurt and out for the season. The only reason he got to play was because of the five months of rest to recover. So staying healthy was a nonfactor.
Yeah just like he was playing "basically with one hand" for the 2018 Finals. There's always a narrative for LeBron. When you say LeBron is a terrible defender, fanboys immediately point to 2013 when LeBron DIDN'T WIN the DPOY! When you say he's not a great scorer, they ignore the 19 seasons where he couldn't lead the league in points, and point straight up "all time points leader" without any context or even some reasoning.
@@hakeemolajuwon4352 Well, why don't you tell us why the guy who has scored more points than anybody else is not a great scorer?
@@DanTarrant1Cuz he's not a great scorer. His points have no impact on the game. He puts up his numbers and the team loses. It's been like that his whole stinking career.
@mpound97 him and Jordan have a nearly identical win percentage in the regular season and the playoffs with lebron obviously playing more games... so try again
@@davidtigelman4653 It’s not even close. Try again. Oh you on Wizards Record? With the torn knee and still playing? Maybe Adam Silver will expand the playoffs to 12 teams per division next. I mean your boy needs help every year in that regards.
Those who criticize MJ's opponents, what is there knowledge of that era? Use the Sonics as an example. Do they realize that they had six seasons of 60 wins then. In 95-96 they had 3 home losses by 5 points in a combined total. They had 3 all stars Detlef,GP and Kemp. Nate McMillian who made an all defensive team off the bench. Hawkins who made an all star team in career along with stretch 5 in Perkins
Even their center in 96' was a solid rim protector, plus they had a tough guy coming off the bench Brickowski who was usually a solid rebounder. That 96' Sonics team was one of the best defensive teams I've ever seen in my life
@@hakeemolajuwon4352 Plus Detlef never gets mentioned. Dirk his fellow countryman looked up to him.That was my guy, 6-10 could shoot. Handle the ball and post. Their defense was tremendous
LeBron said it was one of the toughest ever…was he exaggerating? He couldn’t possibly have been saying that just to hype himself up, could he? 😂
I just love how it's only being heavily criticized because it was lebron and not anybody else😅😅😅. Just give the man his props because none of ya'll would even come close to what he did. So just let the man have his ring😂😂😢😢
@user-nw2jp9zk3z The players say 2020 ring is the hardest one. Yet the "fans" and media say the opposite because they are haters. I always hear how LeBron wins because it's rigged. But when he loses, it's because he chokes. Absolutely zero consistency from bozos
@@RunandLift2yes the players who played in the bubble think that was the hardest, surely they aren’t biased
@@okcrw0608 Surely they don't have the experience of trying to win it
Also, Hakeem's '95 run is insane, regardless of MJ retiring, Hakeem played like an absolute "Dream". 😏😁🏀❤️
Jordan played 6 weeks of basketball before even starting that series with the Magic in 95', then the Magic eliminated the Bulls that series. Olajuwon never had the opportunity to play Jordan in the Finals, but by the time Jordan retired the first time Olajuwon was 11-5 against Jordan and by the time they're careers were over, Olajuwon was 13-10 against Jordan. To put it into perspective, Olajuwon beat Jordan more times in 9 seasons than Jordan beat Olajuwon in 13 seasons
@@hakeemolajuwon4352 All good points and I won't argue with you there.
The more LeBron talks about his successes the less he seems like a GOAT.
- Agree!
He's a Top 3 player behind MJ and Kareem. But him tooting his own horn AND getting creamed by Dirk in 2011 and the Spurs in 2014? Yeah, if I include Russell, then Lebron is 4th best.
@@jlui21What about all the times that MJ got creamed?
He is falling rapidly out of the top 10 list!
@@jlui21 Not even top 10 at this point. He's just padding his record and doesn't care to actually win. He is a drag on the Lakers to force to play his shitty style. He wants to be a pretend PG.
@@jlui21 i have kobe and magic before lebron. maybe even hakeem
3:44 I can't imagine Jordan, Bird , Magic ever saying something so asinine and self congratulatory.
Didn't Ali consider himself the greatest? Did that dismiss him from being an all time great?
So glad you brought up the ‘20 season being a shortened season
Most remember it being on a neutral court where all participants didn’t have to travel back and forth between cities…..
but that ‘postseason’ being on the heels of a shortened season seems to get glossed over alot
It's called the "Bubble Chip" by players, media and everybody! Not the "2020 NBA Championship!" That should tell you something!
The bubble title was hard in that many of the players found it hard to take it seriously. LeBron seems to thrive best when the stakes aren't as high. If there was an actual crowd there, things would likely have been different.
Also, I've always been under the contention that the Warriors team that he loves to brag about beating was a) not near as good as they are made out to be and b) ran out of gas after beating OKC. This is ultimately why they picked up KD. I just can't see the former record holding Bulls add Karl Malone or Shaq to the team just because they were available. The Warriors adding KD had more to do with Steph and Klay coming up small in big time situations than them being so afraid of LeBron.
Not to mention the oddity of the situation in HOW Draymond was suspended, and Curry was actually coming up big in game 6 and that was when the refs kept giving him phantom foul calls and fouled him out of the game. Ayesha Curry went viral that day on Twitter for saying the Finals were rigged. Also one of their critical role players, Andrew Bogut, missed the last few games to injury and he was their primary rim protector. That's when LeBron and Kyrie both went off for 40 points.
Personally I think the Warriors were as good as we thought them to be. Else they wouldn't have been up 3-1 in the Finals. Sure they were probably tired after that 7 game series and 3-1 comeback against OKC, but I'm sure Detroit was tired after their 7-game ECF matchup with Chicago in 1990 but they still won the Finals that year.
It's simply just the Cavaliers became emboldened because so many dominoes fell right for them and Warriors momentum was cut off and prevented from being revived.
I completely agree that that Warriors team is overrated asf. Ppl act like they were unstoppable when they literally went to a game 7 against CP3 and Harden the round before, and it took one of the most historic choke jobs from a team (the rockets missing a historic number of threes in a row) for the Warriors to win that game by SINGLE DIGITS.
Lakers were the firat overall seed that season. They wouldve benefitted from the crowd and other teams would have to travel more than them lol. Next lame argument please this was hilarious.
@@4THA ots impossible to talk 2016s susoension without talking about 2015 ky and kloge injuries on top of begging kd to join up
Bruh uncut hoops smartass comments always got me rolling 😂😂😂 “hall of fame point guard, Jeff Teague”
People also forget that players had the decision to sit out AND several players like Kris Middleton confessed to not even “touching” a ball in those 5 months of the break not to mention mfs were losing whole family members during this shit it was definitely a strike while the iron was hot type of situation. Also the millionaires making the bubble sound like hell while normies like us were goin through it is hilarious.
No traveling to/from, no home court advantages or away games are enough to put that asterisk in the books.
They didnt have the same circumstances..Lakers was the only team allow to practice in the bubble..
Lebron has 1 ring imo. Bubble doesn't count and Heat rings doesn't count. He had a Super team in Miami who carried him. Doesn't count like Durant's fake ass rings with the warriors. Only ring that counts is the 2016 championship.
Come on bro, I hate on the bubble ring too but you can't take the Heat rings away. There were plenty of teams capable of beating the Heat and 2 of them did! The Heatles weren't even as good as the KD warriors. You're overrating the Heatles by doing what your doing.
He got Draymond suspended to win in 2016. Cried to Adam Silver.
If u hate LeBron just say that bruh😂
One reason they were able to come back from a 3-1 games situation because of the draymond green suspension 🤨
Yeah, and Lebron havent the most points, assist, rebound, blocks and steals out of both teams in the series doesnt have anything to do with it. Smh
@@av50ox and the truth to matter is that neither one of us “lied”!! 💡
And Boguts being out injured. There was no rim protection with him out.
@@DH-wk8lm keep the same energy when Kyrie and Love were both out almost the entire series in 2015 finals
@@DH-wk8lmchoking at game 7 is still not excusable bro
Lebroke back mountain loves himself to much
I hate how people pretend Lebron didn’t have a super team assembled with that Cavs team. Kyrie was an all star. Kevin Love was a true all star and lebron demanded him. They also had solid players around. That warriors team was drafted and built pretty organically at that point. That title should not have been that hard and lebron had the “bought” team. That just shows even with a super team assembled by lebron himself, only lebron can make that the “toughest championship of all time”
Warriors were built not bought that will go over some people's head. Lebron has bough his teams to many times
Jr Smith was a 6th man of the year in 2013, but a scrub for the cavs, according to LeBron fans 😂
Who should i recruit? I want a ring
You should retire right now
Trade for Curry, Giannis, Jokic, Tatum, and Luka. It won't be enough help but it's better than what you have now. You deserve it Your LeHighness.
The biggest boost the Lakers got during the bubble season is the 5m rest. Yes, all the teams got it but you get a disproportiinate benefit when your two main guys are old (Bron) or made out of glass (AD)
You can’t take an outlying scenario with completely different variables like the bubble championship and lump it in with the rest and think they’re even remotely similar. There will likely not be another scenario similar to that in the near future. It needs to remain separated so it doesn’t poison the sample pool, which it is undoubtedly doing.
LBJ in order to win needs at least 2 all-stars on his roster or arranged tournaments.
The bubble is a weird topic. I can say this for sure, I wasnt there so i can't say if it was "easy". But, the only players who say the bubble was super hard were the ones in the finals, and everyone else talks about it like they couldn't care less. Are the losers underselling it, or are the winners making a big deal about nothing? I'll never know. The way they describe it sounds like a dream scenario imo. what did bam say? other than giving them whatever thy wanted, its "you your thoughts and one room"? Sounds like basketball heaven.
What drives me crazy is that the Lakers, or at least LeBron, had it easier because they got a big break in the middle of the season to rest and recover which helps LeBron more than other players due to him being 35 at the time. So, really, the Lakers had it easier than most, if not all the other NBA teams during the bubble.
And it didn’t help Kawhi who load manages more than anyone else?
To be fair, prior to the bubble the Lakers were the number 1 seed in the west, were the number 1 ranked defense in the league, & LeBron led the league in assists (10), while also averaging 25 points & 8 rebounds.
Also, I find that a lot of people like to gloss over the fact that the Lakers faced a TON of adversity, that most other teams wouldn’t have been able to overcome.
Like:
1.) New roster (with the exception of only 5 players from the previous year)
2.) New Coach (Frank Vogel)
3.) Had to forfeit home court advantage in the bubble (this didn’t do the Lakers any favors, as they had one of the best W/L records at home, during the regular season)
4.) Were without their best perimeter defender (Avery Bradley)
5.) And their 3rd best player was a past his prime Rondo
You mentioned the lack of competition, & as the number 1 seed, that’s generally the case.
But, there were plenty of obstacles that the Lakers overcame in 2020, that didn’t apply to other teams (like the 5 examples I mentioned).
Bubble aside, how many other championship teams in NBA history can you name, that won a championship their 1st year together, with a new head coach & a new team?
Weakest ring in sports
LeCheater got mad in the WCF because he wasnt getting his flops called, so he wrote a whole letter to Adam Silver complaining about foul calls 😂😂
Don’t forget, while the entire league benefitted from a 5 month vacation in the middle of the season, no one benefited more than old man LeBron and injury-prone AD. It’s a weak championship. No doubt.
@ScaryHoursInsideLA - They were a good team. But without that 5 month gap, LeBron would have been gassed, AD would have gotten hurt or both.
@ScaryHoursInsideLA - Think what you want. But is it a surprise that every other year besides the one with a 5 month break has been a disaster? Think about it. Not that hard to figure out, my dude.
Wait how did it benefit them more? Elaborate
Why do you hate lebron so much cause you are literally trying to down play his ring
Dude acts like he was in prison he better stay out of trouble because he ever goes to jail he's not going to make out 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You accent is baller Uncut. Where in the States are you from? Pennsylvania?
Not fraudulent but definitely not as difficult as some of the top difficult titles.
Very fraudulent!
The only people that discredit the bubble championship are Lebron haters or heat fans saying they should’ve won
Even Dwight Howard said the 2020 bubble title was harder to win than the 2009 Finals that he actually LOST to Kobe in. Okay you, LeBron, and Bam FEEL it was harder, but it's just weird that logically it wasn't harder than many other title runs in NBA history.
Dwight got old. I can see it being harder due to his age. I think he came back from a surgery then. So he probably remembers it as being tough for him since it was his last chance to get a ring
Lol yea that tells u all u need 2 kno kobes wins way more impressive than this new age 3 pt contest league it aint been right since Kobe n Duncan retired I swear
Lol yea that tells u all u need 2 kno kobes wins way more impressive than this new age 3 pt contest league it aint been right since Kobe n Duncan retired I swear
@@relicdad88 Everyone getting double doubles and like 30 points like hotcakes nowadays tells you all you need to know. It's not even the same game that Kobe played where there's actually attempt at some defense.
Greek freak said it was toughest also
Thanks for acknowledging these rich man problems
Rich and bat$hit insane people
That Miami heat was able to get into the finals, that alone should tell you what kind of a shitty championship the bubble tournament was
Did they not just do it again last season with no bubble? People say the dumbest shit
@@MokeAnitbest part is he doesn’t have to respond to how stupid he sounds. just shits out stupidity and keeps on with the day😂
Idk I feel like isolating everyone and playing with no crowds pretty much leveled the entire playing field. Like how could you have a more neutral environment to play in? 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
If the bubble championship was so easy than why didnt another team win it?
There still can only be 1 Champion you simple little guy
@hakeemolajuwon4352 that's kinda my point. If the bubble season was so easy, and the lakers didn't actually deserve to win, than any other team should have won it, but they didn't. The lakers did.
I don't see what calling someone who you've never met small adds to the conversation. Especially if you didn't understand my statement to begin with. You decided to try to insult a stranger online rather than add anything of substance to the topic.
@@NewEnglandGaming413 who said the Lakers didn't deserve to win it? Nobody said that, ever. It's your boy Lebron that is calling that ring the hardest ring in NBA history unprovoked. All we're doing is giving the facts out that easily debunk that lie.
@hakeemolajuwon4352 The video calling the title itself fraudulent makes the claim that they didn't actually deserve the championship.
@@NewEnglandGaming413 what came first, this response video or Lebron's comments? This video probably wouldn't have been made if Lebron hadn't said these ridiculous things, right?
How does Bam know if the bubble championship was the hardest to win ...he had never even made the finals before 2020. He still hasn't WON a championship. Does he have any other RINGS to compare it to?
100%
Was the bubble the same as the usual play offs offs? West with 7 games series, East with 7 game series and final with 7 game series? If not the bubble is a joke. It’s not the same. I’m a doctor and it took me 4 years of medical school and a 3 year residency to start practice so a total of 7 years. Saying the Bubble was like a championship would be a like saying you’re a doctor after 1 year of school instead of the 7.
The only real argument against the bubble chip is the fact that the more "injury proned" players had a chance to rest up. The competition argument is pretty weak sauce tbh. As the Lakers cant control who they play. The Clippers(who everyone expected to meet the lakers in the west finals) blew a 3-1 lead vs The Nuggets. And the bucks who were supposed to be the team to beat in the eastern conference got demolished by the Heat.
Was the bubble chip the toughest one ever? In my opinion, not so much. But if the players says it was tough for them, then I'll take their word for it. Even if they may be embellishing ever so slightly lol.
A reasonable take. There's not much of that left here
Real people were suffering during that time due to the lockdowns. hearing NBA players go woe is me for basically living in a 5 star hotel for a few months is a slap to the face and makes them really easy to hate
Kobe Bryant is rolling over in his grave. Imagine seeing the players and pundits who buy your shoes and claim to be fans yelling: "Mamba Mentality" all trying to discredit the bubble ring. Everyone had a long time to rest, no one had to travel or deal with crowds and no homecourt adv for the Lakers after they fought to get the #1 overall seed. People bitching about getting paid millions to stay in a luxury hotel a few months when yoyr job usually has you traveling 200+ days a year. Hilarious!
Lol its a disgrace I tell ya these dudes gotta be trolling toughest championship ever give me break
@@relicdad88 It was neither the easiest nor hardest* chip. It was the easiest for Bron for sure but that's cause he went up against a dynasty for 6 straight Finals.
@@andrewcook1246 that's the difference between good players like Lebron, and great players like Jordan and Olajuwon. The teams they built are considered historic, the teams Lebron built are considered overrated.
@@andrewcook1246😂😂😂Dynasty for 6 straight Finals?
Bronsexuals are truly delusional.
@@hakeemolajuwon4352Bron's superteams are overrated but not cause of the reason you implied.
They are to me the worst superteams because Wade's knees held up for 1.5 season and was never a deep team or top of Wade and Bron being a tough fit.
Love/Kyrie missed Finals and feat 0 top 75 players and he lead the team in all 5 stats when they won.
Lakers? AD has been hurt a lot and is one fall away from missing 2 months at any moment.
The bubble and the in-season tournament. Weak. 😂
🤓🤓- How you look hating on nba players who literally played in the bubble while you’re hating on RUclips and probably haven’t played a sport your entire life
What gets ignored is when blazers beat the lakers that first game and lebron started building in the excuse saying about the bubble that this is different!!Media never mentions how he already was building a narrative for if the blazers upset the lakers!!
What I realize when I watch Lebron highlights is how much he gets away with traveling
The Mickey Mouse Bubble Chip was a Joke. One of the Lowest rated in NBA history for a reason. 🤣😂🤣
SO basically they are saying it was harder because they couldn't go out to the club after each game
So 3 peating on the same team twice isn't the hardest thing to do
The most least watched and most boring Finals! The bubble championship!
Let us not forget the stimulus package that Silver gave lemickey by suspending Green for game 5 when down 3-1
Um maybe tell green that he can't kick people in the nuts and assault people like how is that lebrons fault green was a dirty player and a repeat offender who is still doing this shit yall are clowns man I don't like lebron as a player but yall discredit too much stuff
Bubble Ring Lakers has a nice ring to it. But for real it was a garbage playoffs and season. The entire season should have been cancelled, it would have been better for the integrity of the game. Also MJ is the goat, nobody has dominated an entire decade like he did.
The 2020 Covid Cup. Claiming that as a legit title is as pathetic as hanging a banner for the laughable "in season tournament".
What’s harder to do? Pee at your own house or pee on a stage in front of 20,000 strangers while everyone is looking at you? Bubble argument over.
Funny how the players even outside the teams that made the finals say it was a hard season in terms of playing. if the Warriors won, then no hate would be out there. Yall just love to hate and act like you were there on the court.
The biggest thing I remember about the 2020 bubble season was the fact that 3 of the top 4 teams in the regular season didnt make it past second round. The odds of that happening must be astronomical, it stinks of being rigged.
Weakest championships was every year Warriors won with KD. Nobody had a chance with arguably the best player in the league, joining the best team in the league.
The bubble wrap championship. How was it difficult? No away or home games. Then a bunch of millionaires. With everything that they could want. It was really just an inconvenience. Not difficult at all.
They played nobody with 50 wins
Only Lebron would be bragging about beating Duncan Robinson & Tyler Hero for the championship 😂💀
I wonder if Miami would’ve won, would everyone say Miami won a bubble ring?
It’s hilarious hearing LeBron talk himself up about that bubble championship and it’s fcuking pathetic
bros whole career is hating on Bron come on leave the man alonel.
You should have included that interview with Steven Adams commenting on the "hardships" of the bubble:
"It's all good, mate. Let's be clear about this - it's not Syria, mate. You know what I mean? It's not - it's not that hard. It's not that difficult, you know what I mean? We're living in a bloody resort, you know. Everyone's got a complaint, everyone has their own preferences, but, you know, it's not, it's not anything too serious. It's just a bit of dry food here and there, and get bored every now and then. But it's all good, man."
I might be a biased Lakers fan but I feel like the 2020 championship is the only Valid Championship that LeBron has won. The only time LeBron didn’t have a superteam 😂
The only super team lebron was in was in Miami💀
@@quandaledingle6059 Must be a little kid that Thinks Kevin Love was nobody 😂
@@jd.gsus. never said he was plus he averaged like 8.5 points a game when he was in Cleveland💀
@@quandaledingle6059 Stop lying, that was his last season and Bron wasn’t there anymore. Love Average 16/19pts and 11 Rebs as a 3rd option with Bron and Kyrie…. Plus the year before he joined LeBron, Love averaged 26pts 12 Rebs 4 ast
@@jd.gsus. in the 2016 finals he did he averaged 8 wym
As an Air Force veteran, those entitled NBA stars and superstars can miss me with that. Do you know how long we’re away from our families? 6 months, a year, sometimes 2 years. We don’t get paid millions to do it and our lives are on the line. This is men and women.
I agree 90% of the teams didn't even wan't 2 play and was trying 2 get kicked out so they could go home