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What’s fascinating about this artwork, which the Los Angeles Lakers conjured up Sunday night, is the fact that neutral observers can find it incredibly ugly. You not only defeated the final opponent Miami Heat, you humiliated them, and not with them Show time-Basketball, for which the club is known worldwide. So don’t pass behind your back without looking with a cheerfully whistled song in the background. But with a disciplined defense, in which the opponent’s actions seem so ridiculous that only Benny Hill’s title track is conceivable as backing music.
The Lakers beat Miami 106: 93 out of the room at Disneyworld and won the 17th title in club history, and perhaps it is good that the sixth game of the final series looked like an empty balloon and that this title was less won than won. . Fit in this tough NBA season. It fits this often terrible year. It fits with the location in this city where the Lakers are based. “We definitely have a Ph.D. in dealing with adversity,” coach Frank Vogel later said: “But it was worth it.”
Of course, with LeBron James, who was voted the MVP of the final series, and Anthony Davis, who moved from New Orleans at the start of the season, the Lakers have two of the best players in the league in their ranks. team. After his fourth title, James is with the third club (he won with Miami in 2012 and 2013 and with Cleveland in 2016), after a record of 260 playoff games and another great performance at the right time (28 points, 14 rebounds and ten passes). ) possibly the best player in history.
Solo: These guys also have other clubs, local rivals Clippers (Kawhi Leonard / Paul George) for example, the Houston Rockets (James Harden / Russell Westbrook), the Philadelphia 76ers (Joel Embiid / Ben Simmons), the Boston Celtics (Kemba Walker). / Jaylen Brown) or the Milwaukee Bucks (Giannis Antetokounmpo / Khris Middleton).
But none of them made it to the final series, and it can’t be a coincidence that the Lakers’ opponent was a mix of young hops like Bam Adebayo, Tyler Herro and Duncan Robinson and ripped off veterans like Andre Iguodala, Goran Dragic and Jay Crowder. . The only celebrity is Jimmy Butler, a guy who previously messed with Chicago Bulls, Minnesota Timberwolves and Philadelphia 76ers coaches, management, and / or teammates and was considered toxic to the cabin climate due to his aggressive nature. .
Tricky as it may sound, the two teams that loved him the most made it to the final series. Or, less trivial and in keeping with the current social climate of the Western world: the two clubs that weren’t constantly complaining about how bad everything was, how difficult it was to be in the bubble, and how terrible it was to wear masks all the time. It was the two teams who took all of this as a challenge and it wouldn’t be too bad if this season was marked with an asterisk, not as with junkies and other cheaters as an indication that something is wrong, but that they took place in difficult conditions.
A lot has happened this year, especially in Los Angeles: in late January, Kobe Bryant, who was considered an angel by many in this city, died in a helicopter crash. In March, the coronavirus pandemic paralyzed most of public life. The Lakers home in downtown was suddenly considered a “wide-spread stadium” because basketball wasn’t just played there. From January to the NBA season hiatus seven weeks later, 39 events were held. The city was particularly hard hit by the pandemic, with unemployment rising to more than 22 percent in some cases. Plus: forest fires, earthquakes – and all the protests against police violence and racism, during which the city seemed like a war zone for a few nights.
