Howard Pope responded to the park champion s low value because they hate Lao Zhan

LeBron James finally ended his 2024-25 season. He thought that he would not be criticized and ridiculed by the fans and media before the Timberwolves were eliminated. However, it turns out that this is not the case. As the most popular player in the NBA, as long as the fans and media mention him, they can get a lot of traffic and attention.

NBA analysts Bayless and Stephen Smith, when LeBron James entered the offseason, did not let the other party go, and still kept criticizing LeBron James's comments. Recently, LeBron James' former teammates Dwight Howard and Pope recalled the 2020 Lakers championship in Orlando's closed park in the podcast show "Above The Rim with DH 12", dissatisfied with the outside world's belittlement of their championship value.

The 2020 championship has the most valuable value, and it can be said that it is the most valuable championship after the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers championship. Everyone is playing in a closed park, and there is no saying of the advantages and disadvantages of home and away games. Everyone has injuries and is attacked by the epidemic. The playoff journey of the 2019-20 season tests the players' concentration and self-discipline.

Dwight Howard expressed his dissatisfaction with the outside world's remarks that the 2020 Lakers Campus champion was not worth enough. Dwight Howard said: "Because they hate LeBron, they will say that the championship is not real." Indeed, because this championship was won by LeBron James, many fans and media were dissatisfied with the result. Therefore, they believe that the Lakers' championship is not valuable. If the winner is replaced by Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant and others, they will say that the championship this season is valuable. We can also see in recent seasons, the Bucks won the championship, the Warriors won the championship, the Nuggets won the championship, and the Celtics won the championship. Fans and media believe that their winnings are very valuable, even surpassing the 2020 championship value. However, they forgot that the Lakers were the number one in the Western Conference that season, and their offense and defense were both top five in the league.

LeBron James' former teammate Pope said: "The media always likes to create these stories. Everyone has to find a way to make some money. Do you know what I'm talking about? This is how Skip makes money. They have to hate someone." There is something in Pop that says that those who say that the Lakers' 2020 championship are not valuable enough to gain traffic and want to create a topic to help them make money. Bayless is one of them. He often criticized LeBron and James for gaining attention and relying on this traffic to make money.