Every year, the NBA ecosystem attempts to assign some sort of asterisk to that year’s champion, and 2025 will be no different. This year’s champion, the Oklahoma City Thunder, will face accusations that their title is tainted by Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton tearing his achilles tendon in the first quarter of Game 7, but chances are that even with that context in the game that literally decided the series, it still won’t be the most controversial championship in recent NBA history.
That honor will (likely) always go to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020, as many over the years have tried to call their NBA Bubble triumph “Mickey Mouse”
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