Titanic to lead the Heat to the Conference Final, Jimmy Butler was certainly one of the best NBA players in the last Playoffs. A campaign that did not bring him many accolades as the new season approaches. Indeed, ESPN unveiled his top 100 NBA players and Jimmy Buckets is only 17th.
Like every season, ESPN brings us his famous ranking of the best players in the league and like every season is an excellent source of motivation for many players. ” So is this guy better than me? Okay, tonight I’ll put him 40. ” This is the kind of sentence a player can say to himself if he takes this ranking seriously and we know a lot of guys are very interested in this sort of thing. Just look at the complaints year after year about 2K ratings. Why should Butler be offended then? Because being the 17th best player in the League after the Playoffs he just left, it’s still hard to hear. We remember it Jimmy Buckets averaged 27.4 points, 7.4 rebounds, 4.6 assists and 2.1 steals in spring games, all at 50% shots.. Monstrous on both sides of the pitch, he took all of Florida to the Conference Final, where he shone again with the climax of this titanic match on the Boston field during Game 6: a small 47/9/8/4 to silence a spindle TD Garden. What if we were to make a Top of the best players in the 2022 Playoffs? It would be complicated if not impossible to get Jimmy out of the Top 5.
So obviously the ranking ofESPN it is not limited to recent performances, but remains a projection for next year. After that, if there were 16 players with great performances right in front of him, he would get along very well but the presence of some may surprise. Let’s take a look!
- 17. Jimmy Butler
- 16. Trae Young
- 15. Paolo Giorgio
- 14. Damian Lillard
- 13. City of Karl-Anthony
- 12. Kawhi Leonard
- 11. James Harden
Trae Young in front of Jimmy Butler? The same Ice Trae totally locked up by the … Heat in the first round of the Playoffs? James Harden? The same one who has been criticized for months for his erratic performance and who was also locked up by the … Heat? We may also be surprised to see Paul George, Kawhi Leonard and Damian Lillard all broke from long injuries in recent months. We are not saying that these players are less strong than Butler attention, there are MVP candidates on all sides when they are at 100% of their chances but the dynamics of the moment are not necessarily very favorable for them compared to that of the Heat winger. We are talking about the franchise player of the best team in the East, Conference finalist who recently slammed monstrous performances. Obviously some journalists went to meet the player to ask him for his opinion on the matter and he did not seem particularly shocked by this ranking. Modesty or irony, we let you judge:
Jimmy Butler’s reaction to ESPN ranks him in 17th place: «Word? All right. … I’m not worried about that. 17? That’s a good number for me. “
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– Dime (@DimeUPROXX) September 28, 2022
Jimmy Butler only 17th best player in the league? It still seems a bit low given the goals achieved by the boy in recent months. If Mister Buckets needed an extra dose of motivation to send heavy this season, that’s it.
