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It just seems like any time someone talks about it, they're trying to put disrespect on the teams, mostly LeBron and the Lakers, but if they're favorite team won that championship then they'd probably be saying something different.

If anything, winning the 'bubble chip' is an accomplishment.

1. This is something none of the players in the 2020 rosters have dealt with before. They haven't went through a pandemic and having to deal with that, while also still worrying about basketball. That alone is enough to affect a players mind and play.

2. The players were literally segregated to one portion of a building, seeing the same people day in and day out, doing nothing but sitting there, watching videos or training. They had no physical contact with anyone outside of there; not friends, not families, not even the other team until play time. That also affects players mental and abilities.

3. There were no fans. Players and teams literally thrive off the energy from courts and teams. Having no fans, having nothing but empty arenas and people on a screen is a big shift in what they've been doing their whole time playing in the NBA. That change alone is enough to affect their play.

4. There's no traveling. There's no home games, there's no way games, there's no going to clubs or restaurants, there's no going to the store, there's no going anywhere.

5. The constant testing they had to do could also play an affect on them. Not to mention the constant worry for their families/friends they aren't around or even for themselves while playing.

There's just lots of reasons, some I'm not remembering atm but possibly add them on when I think of them. It's just interesting how people discredit this so much. Every team had to go through the same things, no other teams could persevere through it besides 2. While the outsiders and fans are looking in, hanging around their friends or families quarantining, smoking, drinking, ordering food, watching the games (at least those that watched it since it was one of the lowest viewed finales series), these people were literally subjected to the same quarantine but were around a bunch of guys and the opposite team the whole time, being unable to even move around outside of their selected places. We were around our families, a lot of us were still around our friends even tho we shouldn't have been, these players didn't have that socializing aspect that we had, even if they were around their team. It's like constantly being at your job 24/7 opposed to constantly being at home 24/7 like a lot of us were.

Nobody knew what was going to happen with the whole pandemic stuff either so that plays another psychology factor on these players. And NBA is definitely not the only sport to have went through this; literally every sport and every team has been affected by it.

But yet 2 teams still persevered through all of it, things they had to actively adjust to and do, where most of the other teams couldn't, they did, and they went to the finales.