En the last Top-15 best-selling NBA jerseys it’s not yours. In the penultimate closes that classification. For a massive league and followed by the whole world, Jimmy Butler is not considered by the ‘people’ as one of the great stars. He is known for his level and successes, and the great fan values him, but he lacks global acceptance, which he should find after another exhibition in the Playoffs.
Butler became the first party of the Eastern Conference final in the third player in the NBA with more games of more than 40 points and at least 60% shooting from the field. He has five, and is only surpassed by LeBron James, with 12, and Shaquille O’Neal (8). Thus, the Heat impressed and open the Eastern final with a 1-0 that surprises and warns at the same time.
–Jimmy Butler is the soul of the Miami Heat
Two seasons ago it was a headache for Antetokounmpo, the Celtics themselves and even the later champions, Lebron James’ Lakers. He was blamed for being the ‘bubble basketball. Not two years later he is again fundamental in the Playoffs for the Heat. Butler is the soul of a competitive team that wants to be a winner. The first victory against the Celtics proves it.
—Butler’s display against the Celtics
The numbers also say it, and not only those of his efficiency with the shot. He is the player with the most points in Miami history in his first 12 Playoff games in the same year. He has 328 in 2022, beating Wade’s 321 in 2005 or LeBron James’ 319 and 317 in 2012 and 2014. Star level, a basketball megastar.
–The Sixers preferred Tobias Harris…
While Butler walks out again and again dressed in the colors of the Florida State team, his old teammates, the Philadelphia 76ers, are in Cancun. Yes, franchising the process and building a team, who decided execute the option to continue with Tobias Harris and ‘move’ from a Butler who took the spotlight away to Ben Simmons or Embiid. Now press imagine That will be that team with Butler and the Cameroons inside.
—Jimmy Butler executes the Celtics in the first game of the Eastern Finals
Because if the Sixers have limped off of something, it’s from the foreign generation. With Harden on and off, Maxey sparking and a gray Harris, the team has relied on Embiid in the paint. With which, Butler will be a perfect piece. But of course, he is in Miami and he will laugh if they offer him to return to what was his home. “We were wrong,” Embiid said. And so…
–The Celtics ‘are falling’
The license to doubt the Boston Celtics has to be obtained in ‘another window’. They are a great team, they continue to play as such, but they are paying for the fatigue. It is the reality of a short rotation, which in ‘Game 1’ of the conference final was even more so, because neither Al Horford nor Marcus Smart could dress in a short. They come ‘dead’ into tight finishes, and that’s how their game against the Heat ended.
—The immense tapn from Adebayo to Jaylen Brown
Before Miami they paid in excess the losses in the construction of the play that ended with quick transitions. One after another, and giving the perimeter to Gabe Vicent or Max Strus. Heat ‘soldiers of fortune’ who plugged in and changed the game. Besides Jimmy Butler, of course.
–A genius of Spoelstra
The consequence of the first game is that the Miami Heat are once again a ‘signature work’. Erik Spoelstra has built a team capable of competing in any scenario, and in which the ‘second swords’ change the games. Max Strus or Gabe Vincent would not be even in dreams at this competitive stage, but the Miami coach has given them a fundamental mission. The one to plug in from outside.
–Because Boston allows the shot of these players. They know that against the Bucks it went perfectly, because Grayson Allen or Pat Connaughton weren’t right, but against Miami that plan doesn’t work. Or at least not yet. Miami has opened fire and their form indicates that there will be a lot of battle.
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