Miami Heat this season has shown toughness and commitment to pursuing championships and has given Jimmy Butler a place he can call home as he dives into the deepest playoff run of his career.
Two months ago, he might have sounded crazy to anyone outside of the Miami Heat ecosystem when he talked about the Miami Heat’s mission in the NBA bubble.
Jimmy told anyone willing to listen that they were coming north to win it all, not just to deliver a good showing and exit this unprecedented situation with any moral victories.
Butler saw something different in the Heat organisation, and the building blocks of this team in particular, when he spurned other recruiting pitches last summer and zeroed in on the Miami Heat franchise.
They are halfway to a fourth title now, and halfway to Butler’s stated goal, with Tuesday night’s 103-94 win over the No 1 overall seed Milwaukee Bucks in Game 5 at HP FieldHouse.
Watch the Game highlights below…
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Butler, however, isn’t surprised things have come together so quickly.
“Not at all,” said Butler, who led a balanced effort with 17 points, 10 rebounds, and six assists.
“We are a close group, we like being around one another. We are constantly talking about how we can make each other better. What we see out there on the floor, we are legit in it to win it. We don’t care about stats, we don’t care about fame. We don’t care about any of that.
“All that we all care about is winning a championship. And I’m telling you, that is why we are playing the style of basketball we are playing right now.”
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The Bucks didn’t have their MVP, Giannis Antetokounmpo, whose sprained right ankle kept him out of what turned out to be the final game for the team with the best regular-season record in the league in each of the past two seasons.
But the Heat had theirs in Butler, who has led the franchise to their first conference finals since 2014, when LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh were finishing up a wild run of four straight trips to the Finals, including championships in 2012 and 2013.
Butler does not think this team has come close to playing its best yet.
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