Even before the Lakers won the championship, some were ready to attach an asterisk. Vogel pushed back on that concept, pointing out that not every team was ready to grind out all those months in the bubble. “To endure that type of intense pressure environment, where every detail is scrutinized, where the intensity was high,” he said, “to endure those meetings with no outlet of family, or whatever single guys would be doing, without an outlet, was one of the biggest challenges. It was a credit to all the participants to lean on and to support each other.”
