Last week, Philadelphia 76ers team president Daryl Morey made headlines for claiming that the NBA championship LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers won in 2020 — a.k.a., the Bubble Season — should have an “asterisk” next to it . “Everyone I speak to around the league privately agrees that it doesn’t truly hold up as a genuine championship,” Morey told The Athletic, in an actually pretty terrific oral history about the NBA COVID Bubble , five years later. “The champion will forever be marked by an asterisk,” he said.

Suffice it to say, Morey — who probably regrets being a bit too loose with his words — being the one to complain that someone else’s championship is illegitimate is pretty rich. For all his successes as an executive, Morey has famously never won a title. The closest

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