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> “ BUT THE BUBBLE DIDNT COUNT !” 😭😭
NBA champion Alex Caruso tweets about the impending possibility of all four 2023 NBA playoffs conference finalists being the same 4 teams that reprised the conference finals during the 2020 NBA playoffs, which took place in a crowd-less, bubble environment to continue playing games amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Tmr
He don’t know it’s tomorrow
Bubble teams with fans gonna be lit
Man, I knew the game was tomorrow, but I saw this and thought I was wrong, so I went to double check, and it turns out it was tomorrow. Man, fuck this post.
I dislike putting “asterisks” on championship teams, but I *really* dislike using the Bubble as one. No one had a competitive advantage. I get the issue with “home court advantage”, but 2 of the teams in the Conference Finals this year are lower seeded teams without home court advantage.
Always felt dumb to say things like “Micky Mouse” ring to discredit a championship.
Thanks Alex!
From Heat’s perspective, which is a better match up?
I certainly hope it’s not 2020 all over again
Part of it was because the Lakers and LeBron won, but I also think us living in the meme/shitpost/wannabe comedian/internet troll culture and that the whole thing taking place in freaking Disneyland and calling it “bubble”, also contributed to this narrative.
“Bubble boys”, “bubble ring” or “Mikey mouse ring” just sounds funny/meme-worthy.
CaruGOAT from the top rope!
Don’t you dare steal my Saturday from me, Alex Caruso! We’ll revisit this tomorrow.
Good, glad we can finally put the bubble bullshit to rest.
Bubble was the hardest championship ever.
What’s all this bubble stuff? The heat were a shot away from the finals last year
It’s three years later. Whatever happens this year has no bearing on what happened in the bubble.
Why are we talking about the bubble like these teams are even remotely the same
Whoever scheduled game 7 to be 3:30pm on mothers day is a fuckin bozo
The real Mickey Mouse finals was suns bucks
Don’t they play on sunday?
I’ll never understand the logic of “bubble year don’t count.” All teams were in the same situation, no advantages. No home crowds to swing the refs really resulted in pure ball. If anything, the fraud year was 2021 with players missing extended time due to Covid and all conference finals teams having the shortest offseason in the history of the nba. Now *that* isn’t fair. TLDR: fraud year was 2021 because not all teams were on even ground
The Bubble was the purest and most competitive version of the NBA we’ll ever see.