'Hardest finals hands down,' Dwight Howard Gets Real On NBA Bubble Title

In what has been a debate on whether or not the Los Angeles Lakers deserve a lot of credit after winning the 2020 NBA championship title, a season that was different than other years thanks to the COVID Pandemic that the world, many think that anybody could've won it, but at the end of the day, the purple and gold were the best team.

While many NBA players have tried to diminish the effort made by the Los Angeles Lakers, there have been others that have defended the difficulty of winning at the Bubble, even some players that aren't Lakers like Damian Lillard and most recently Udonis Haslem.

Now Former Los Angeles Lakers big man Dwight Howard believes that the title he won with the Lakers in the Orlando, Fla. bubble in the 2019-20 season was the “hardest finals hands down.”

Howard even believes it was harder than the NBA Finals where he lost to Kobe Bryant and the Lakers when he was a member of the Orlando Magic. Since the Lakers won that championship title, three years later only Anthony Davis and LeBron James have been able to stay on the roster, the rest are gone, including head coach Frank Vogel.

The NBA Bubble was different from other season

The 2019-20 NBA season was unlike any other in history, as the season was paused in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the NBA eventually resumed the season, it didn’t feature all 30 teams, as the league could only have so many teams in the Orlando, Fla. bubble to finish the regular season and then play the playoffs. Howard and the Lakers ended up earning the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference that season, and the team stormed through the playoffs.