Title To Hollywood

2020 has been a crazy year, on both a sports and global perspective. For the Los Angeles Lakers, in the middle of the regular season, they saw the tragic passing of one of their, and the games biggest stars ever, in Kobe Bryant. This season became more than just another title run for the Lakers, it had more meaning to it. There was something special about this basketball team. They capped the year off with a 17th NBA title in team history, tying them with the Boston Celtics for the most in league history. It came after a six game series win over the Miami Heat. This title comes ten years after the Lakers last title, and finals appearance, which featured Kobe Bryant.

Miami gave the Lakers all they can handle in this series. They put up a hell of a fight, thanks to the play of Jimmy Butler. Butler showed that he still has something left in the tank. But Miami was just outplayed by the better and more powerful team in the Lakers.

This title brings a seventeenth to the Lakers, tied with the Celtics for the most in the history of the game. This marks the 4th title for LeBron James, having won before with the Cavs and twice with the Heat. LeBron also took home the MVP for the finals, his 4th finals MVP award. The only guy who's won more finals MVP's then James is Michael Jordan, who had six.

Give credit where it's due to the league, for being able to get this thing figured out. When the season was paused in March after the Rudy Gobert positive test, nobody was sure how it was going to work, trying to crown a champion. The NBA went to work trying to figure out a bubble situation, and they did. Everybody shipped down to Wide World of Sports down in Orlando. There were no positive tests along the way, and the league was able to get this thing done without a hitch.

LeBron and company marched through the playoffs like a team on a mission. There wasn't much doubt, as the playoffs went along, that Los Angeles was going to walk away with the title. The question became, is anybody going to come close to stopping them? The one team that pushed them the hardest was Miami, going six games. Everybody else, Portland, Houston and Denver, all bowed out to the Lakers in five games.

Congrats to the Lakers this years NBA Champions!