Best tweets from garbage time of the Lakers’ title-clinching blowout
The Lakers started blowing out the Heat so early, the most entertaining part of Game 6 of the NBA Finals were the garbage time tweets.
If you tuned into Game 6 of the Lakers–Heat NBA Finals series on Sunday night in the second quarter you didn’t get to see much competitive basketball.
Less than a minute into the quarter, the Lakers went up by 10 points and it never got any closer.
The rout was well and truly on, leaving basketball fans looking around for something else to occupy their Sunday night. That’s where Twitter came in.
Twitter had fun during garbage time of the Lakers title-win over the Heat.
The only people happy about a Game 6 blowout before halftime were Lakers fans.
If 2020 was a score pic.twitter.com/GbrfKwfwq3
— Reese Waters (@reesewaters) October 12, 2020
The good news, rival fans know the best way to get on the nerves of any Lakers fans in their lives.
Not that any Laker fan truly cares at this point. They were too busy celebrating in a variety of ways, many of which involved the memory of Kobe Bryant.
Lakers lead by 29 after 3. pic.twitter.com/LLgzuU79jP
— Trevor Lane (@Trevor_Lane) October 12, 2020
Heat fans really didn’t have many positives to take away.
Heat fans pic.twitter.com/nBoS8WLGZx
— FanSided (@FanSided) October 12, 2020
The stats just weren’t pretty at any point.
Anthony Davis has 15 points and LeBron James has 17 tonight.
— Basketball Reference (@bball_ref) October 12, 2020
If you erased every single point scored by both players, the Lakers would still be leading 50-48
LeBron James was pretty darn good again. So was Anthony Davis. But the debate over a Finals MVP has already been settled.
LeBron is Finals MVP for leading this Lakers team and because I’ve thought AD has had a series-ending injury too many times to count in this series.
— Tate Frazier (@tatefrazier) October 12, 2020
In the middle of a blowout, you start to notice the weirdest things.
It’s not just folks on Twitter getting off-topic either.
My impression of Mark Jackson, commentating during a blowout:
— B.W. Carlin (@BaileyCarlin) October 12, 2020
“...and that’s why mashed potatoes just don’t do it for me. Never enough gravy, always dry. And LeBron corrals the rebound for the Lakers”
Maybe the worst thing about LeBron winning another title is the endless legacy debates that are about to dominate sports media.
Lebron vs MJ Twitter pic.twitter.com/yVwDonnv7i
— Reese Waters (@reesewaters) October 12, 2020
You know its coming. Prepare yourself.
The Lakers achieved their latest title in the strangest of ways, navigating the NBA bubble while taking down the Blazers, the Rockets, the Nuggets and the Heat. The only question left is whether they’ll be in this position again next year.
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