Add Marcus Morris to the list of current and former Los Angeles Clippers players who believe the team would have won the 2020 NBA title if they weren’t in the Bubble. On Run It Back, Morris stated that he and his teammates were not comfortable inside the Bubble.

“For sure, hands down,” Morris said. “We was the best team, we was the most connected team, top to bottom, starters to the guys coming off (the bench). We was perfect, man. I think that the Bubble, guys just got tired of being there. Tired of being not around their family, just being in an uncomfortable space, and it just affected us, right when we had our shot.”

The Clippers finished that 2019-20 season with a 49-23 record and were the second seed in the Western Conference. They were viewed as the favorites to win it all and a titanic clash with the 52-19 Los Angeles Lakers in the Conference Finals seemed almost inevitable as the playoffs began.

While the Lakers got there, the Clippers shockingly blew a 3-1 lead in the Conference Semifinals against the Denver Nuggets to lose in seven games. Morris and many others on that team believe they only lost because being in the Bubble had a very negative effect on them.

Would they have if it was a normal season not affected by COVID-19? I don’t think you can say that for sure, but that was certainly their best shot at winning the championship in the Kawhi Leonard-Paul George era. It was the only postseason run where both Leonard and George were healthy for the Clippers and they couldn’t get it done.