Will injuries put an asterisk on this year's NBA Champion? | NBA | FIRST THINGS FIRST

Chris Broussard and Nick Wright discuss if the abundance of injuries in this season's playoffs will put an asterisk on this year’s NBA Champion. Nick and Chris explain why they think there is no asterisk.

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[apierre]

Finals MVP Danilo Gallinari coming up! 🔥🔥🔥

[tavynspringston]

I’m not gonna call it an asterisk, but not all rings are created equal it’s always been that way.

[MikeHunt-quef]

Everyone screaming asterisks are at home hating cuz they got eliminated.

[randomonium]

Might as well just slap an asterisk on all sports and call it a day.

[JustMoseyinAround]

*The Hawks beat a healthy Knicks team while being underdogs. They beat a healthy 76ers team while being heavy underdogs (I know Joel's knee blah blah but he still played amazing). When Giannis went down, Trae was out. There will definitely NOT be an asterisk if the Hawks win. I'm low-key rooting for them.*

[Theyaintme_cb]

Yess! Brandon Marshall’s microphone must have been broke for a while

[andrewcoffey]

So if Atlanta wins, its the injury asterisk... While in fact Atlanta is injured like a lot of teams, and up to this point has arguably played the most healthy set of teams to get to this point. Where as Mil and Phx have played an injured team each round. Heavily disagree with Chris there which I don't do often

[tblackmusic]

The narrative is all off, the Hawks winning in spite of Trae being hurt wouldn’t put an asterisk on anything… Everyone is hurt!

[KleinpeterHank]

There’s always been injuries but to act like this many players going out is normal then that’s just silly.

[mirzasinggih]

Nah there cant be an asterisk to this years title, any of these 4 teams who will win it all have dealt with their own injuries

[infinityproductions-cp]

Long story short, if the lakers won the title this year, there would be an asterisk next to it, but since they won't, there won't be one

[redyoshi]

Na it shouldn’t because literally every team has had important players go down to injuries

[bolo]

There shouldn't be no asterisk to no championship, a championship is a championship...

[kayg]

The fact that people who dont know how hard and how much dedication and commitment you have to have to win a championship can sit somewhere and tell a player that his rings are fake or have an asterisk is insane to me. What right do analysts or fans have to tell a players all of his hard work has an asterisk

[nathanforsyth]

Survival of the fittest sports are unpredictable no credit should be taken away from the winner

[Sam-umci]

Why are they talking about the hawks? Trae and Hunter are injured. Suns are the lucky ones without any injury.

[MmaMadman]

Basically Chris just said that if Atlanta wins the chip then yes its an asterisk season.

[a]

Chris P always teaching us history lol

[Theyaintme_cb]

No for the simple like Nick sayed any team that wins had to go through its own injury problems at one point

[nelly]

I’ve never put an asterisk on a champion before, and I won’t this year but this will be one of the weakest champions in recent memory