The Los Angeles Lakers won't have a championship parade to celebrate the franchise's 17th NBA title in front of their fans. Still, to anyone who's placing an asterisk on the Lakers' title won inside the Orlando bubble, L.A.'s executive vice president and general manager Rob Pelinka has an apt response:

“I spend a lot of time kind of thinking through what lens you’re viewing things through and for me, this one is ‘let’s count the blessings instead of the losses.’ Like it’s easy to think about ‘oh, we didn’t get to have a parade, or we didn’t get to do this yet,'” Pelinka said on ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski's The Woj Pod. “But to be able to have won a championship inside a bubble, and to be with the guys and the staff for 100 days in a row, also provided some extraordinary moments that probably future champions will never be able to experience because it was such a unique setting.”

Pelinka has a point. The circumstances were clearly unprecedented, but they were equal for everybody. Inarguably, no other team overcame the challenges of the bubble as well as the Lakers. The Lakers' well-documented season-long chemistry clearly paid dividends at Disney World.

“I think some have (asked) ‘will this championship have an asterisk on it?’ I like to say ‘no, I think it’s got a gold star.’ Just because you had to do so much more to get to the end, and I think it was just a testament to our team (and) the players and our staff coming together in that environment.”

The fact that the Lakers employ two of the five best basketball players in LeBron James and Anthony Davis while posting the best record in the Western Conference before the hiatus should silence any asterisk talk.