“Had the Rockets won the title, I absolutely would have celebrated it as legi timate, knowing the immense effort and resilience required,” Morey said, per The Athletic. “Yet, everyone I speak to around the league privately agrees th at it doesn’t truly hold up as a genuine championship. Perhaps the lasting le gacy of the NBA bubble is that the NBA should be proud of its leadership at bo th the beginning and end of the pandemic, even though the champion will foreve r be marked by an asterisk.”