THE FINALS — While everybody and their baby’s momma, Uncle LeRoy and cousin Man-Man were literally pouring the dirt on the Miami Heat casket and walking away from the gravesite. Jimmy Butler jumped out of the joint and stood on top of it and said not yet playas. Down 2-0 going into Game 3 of the NBA Finals Butler put on the Superman cape, ate his spinach pulled up on a boy like what?
He finished with 40 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists to lead the Heat to a 115-104 win to make it a 2-1 series. It was only the third 40 point triple double in NBA Finals history.
“I tell Coach all the time, `’I’m ready for this,” Butler said. “The biggest stage, whatever you ask me to do, I can do.”
With the Heat already down two of it’s best players and down 2-0 in the series nobody gave them a snowball’s chance in hell of winning. Bam Adebayo and Goran Dragic were both still unable to go. However, Jimmy Buckets did enough work for the both of them in Game 3.
Eric Spoelstra had this to say about him afterwards, “This is what he wanted, this is what we wanted. It’s really hard to analyze or describe Jimmy until you actually feel him between the four lines. He’s a supreme, elite competitor and we needed it.”
He’s such a great leader and competitor that LeBron knows full well how much of a competitor he is when asked about Jimmy’s performance during the post-game.
“He’s one of the best competitors we have in our game. Love that opportunity. For me, personally, I don’t know how many more opportunities I’m going to have so to be able to go against a fierce competitor like that is something I’ll look back on when I’m done playing. I’ll miss those moments.”
LeBron finished the night with 25 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists for the Lakers, while Kyle Kuzma and Markieff Morris each had 19 points. Anthony Davis only managed to drop off 15.
Game 4 is Tuesday night! Will the Lakers be ready to bounce back or will Jimmy give them the business once more? We’ll see!!!!