LeBron James & the Lakers win the bubble title
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🗓️ 12 October 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Ben Golliver and Michael Pina discuss the end of the NBA bubble, which saw the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Miami Heat in six games to claim their 17th championship. Ben offers a behind-the-scenes look at LeBron James's title celebration and then they debate where this title ranks among James's four rings. From there, Ben and Michael look back on the Finals and the overall bubble experience. What happened to the Heat in Game 6 and will they be back next year? What prevented this year's Lakers team from capturing the national imagination? How and why did the bubble humanize the superstars who participated? The show closes with a discussion of Ben's Washington Post essay on his complicated feelings leaving the bubble and returning home to California.
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| 0:00.0 | Dan Hans is here with Mark Cessler and Greg Rosenthal from the Around the NFL Podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | The 2023 NFL Draft is almost here and around the NFL has you covered with three shows |
| 0:09.6 | a week leading up to the big night. |
| 0:11.3 | We got to top prospects. |
| 0:12.9 | We got to big mysteries. |
| 0:14.5 | We got it all and we'll be joined by draft experts leading up to the big night to help |
| 0:18.5 | us predict how this draft will unfold, which is hard to do because this year's draft is |
| 0:22.7 | unpredictable and excited. |
| 0:24.2 | Yes, listen to Around the NFL on the I Heart Radio app. |
| 0:27.8 | Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:31.9 | Happy drafting. |
| 0:34.8 | What's up, Overploriklo. |
| 0:35.8 | This is Ben Galver with The Washington Post. |
| 0:37.8 | I am joined on the other line by Michael the Pod Pena who has been covering the just completed |
| 0:43.5 | playoffs for 538 and GQ. |
| 0:47.6 | Michael, I think this episode is going to have to be called the after glow. |
| 0:51.0 | I kid you not. |
| 0:52.4 | I still smell of champagne. |
| 0:55.2 | I cannot get the scent off my body last night was absolutely doused by LeBron James, a |
| 1:02.0 | very excited LeBron James who helped lead the Lakers to the fourth title of his career, |
| 1:07.9 | the 17th title in Lakers history, the first title of Anthony Davis's career. |
| 1:14.2 | And LeBron along the way claimed his fourth finals MVP award. |
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