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NBA Finals 2020: The Courtside View
These are my thoughts from watching the games outside of the bubble when my favorite team was not one of them.
First off, congratulations to the Los Angeles Lakers for winning the championship. It is one of the quietest Finals I have had in a while as the Golden State Warriors were just not good enough this year for the competition. The silver lining for me is the focused attention to what the great teams have put up since their returns after the inevitable postponement.
On the Bubble
It is apt and mildly scathing to call the isolation zone the “Bubble”. To be fair, there is brilliant basketball since August 2020 and the players were calling for the appropriate scrutiny of Black Lives Matter. Personally, there are questions on my mind: Can we do more than creating awareness on those jerseys? How big is the gap between NBA players and the coloured or black community? Is the money-making side of sports the root of disparity and injustice? As a lifelong sports fan, these questions are profoundly important when it comes to supporting certain players, teams or even a franchise.
On Individual Leadership and Team Sports
We have seen marvellous showcase of basketball leadership in the last six games when Lakers took on The Miami Heat. Lebron James and…
