Perspective: Jimmy Butler’s playoff story adds another outlandish chapter
— the duo has silenced any lingering questions about how they may or may not fit together. Their partnership gave Boston all the context its story needed: Up three games to two. Expected to win even by its potential opponent waiting in the West; Draymond Green and the Golden State Warriorson Thursday night when Green predicted on TNT: “We’re going to play Boston.
And, on their home floor, where, with a win, the 24-year-old Tatum certainly would have hoisted the trophy named after Boston’s favorite, Larry Bird, as the first-ever Eastern Conference finals MVP.A win and Tatum and Brown would’ve elevated into the rare green air of Celtic lore. Except Butler had a talk with Wade, ignored the lingering inflammation in his right knee, then spent the night writing more chapters in the book of Playoff Jimmy.
“D-Wade never hits me until his voice is really, really needed. And it was,” Butler said. “I texted him and told him I appreciate him for it. Just to let me go out there, continue to build on that legacy and make sure that we win.”At the same time, the two Boston stars — neither of them have earned such a cool nickname yet — went missing when the game mattered most. Together, they combined to attempt seven field goals in the second half.
As individuals, they looked more like the neophytes from 2018 instead of the veterans they should be: Tatum spent the fourth quarter treating the ball as though it had been saturated in butter, committing four of his game-high seven turnovers, while Brown blew a pair of late free throws when the teams were tied at 99. Overwriting their mistakes with his own story, Butler showed up on the next Miami possession, swooping in from near the right baseline and scoring through Al Horford’s foul.
There may not be a more compelling drama in sports than a Game 7, but often the preceding matchup can be just as thrilling. We don’t get the indelible image of LeBron,
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