That 2008 Celtics team was incredible and would have beaten the 2020 Lakers. Who knows if this Lakers team would have won if there was no interruption to the season, and Lebron never had a few months of rest for the long playoff stretch. I feel like that 2008 Celtics team gets a bad rep because of the Atlanta and Cleveland series going 7. I still can’t explain why they couldn’t win on the road in those first two series, but they got better each series after that. By the time they reached the finals against the Lakers, the series never really felt close. BTW, Kobe did win the MVP that year, so you could claim the Lakers had the best player in the series. However, I still feel, Garnett had one of the most dominant seasons I have ever seen and easily deserved the MVP.