Philly GM Daryl Morey said the Lakers' 2020 bubble title "doesn’t truly hold up as a genuine championship." Is he right or is he off-base?

The Los Angeles Lakers won the 2020 Finals in the NBA Bubble, with LeBron James winning Finals MVP for the fourth time in his career.

Nearly five years to the day the NBA resumed its season amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Los Angeles Lakers' victory in the Finals is still being debated by prominent people within the league.

Morey recently spoke on the 2020 championship, saying that people around the league believe that ring isn’t a genuine one. For the most part, those on that Lakers team have dismissed that notion, but in this instance, former assistant coach Phil Handy was not going to let that comment go unanswered.

Looking back to the fifth anniversary of the NBA’s 2020 bubble championship, a familiar debate has resurfaced in recent weeks. Philadelphia 76ers executive

Morey was running the Houston Rockets back in 2020, and they were eliminated in the second round of the bubble playoffs by the Lakers. Morey’s super small ball team led by James Harden and Russell Westbrook was no match for the LeBron James, Anthony Davis, and an elite defense, and the series ended in only five games.

I think the bubble title needs an asterisk because it was harder than people want to acknowledge, not easier. It

Dismissing that title undercuts not only what those Lakers endured but the very meaning of resilience and excellence in one of the toughest environments basketball has seen.