The first time around, they went out in six games to the top seeded Los Angeles Lakers in the Walt Disney World bubble. This is Jimmy Butler’s second Finals appearance since joining Miami before the 2019-20 season. Jamal Cain, thanks to his two-way contract status, won’t be playing in the Finals, but I’m sure it’s still cool as hell to be on the bench for it. Across all seven games, Butler chipped in 24.7 points, 7.6 rebounds, 6.1 assists, and 2.6 steals per game, with seemingly a lot of those steals coming 1) in crucial spots and 2) with Jimmy channeling his inner Ed Reed and jumping passing routes almost out of nowhere. He closed out the Celtics with a game high 28 points to go with seven rebounds, six assists, and three steals. Our guy Jimmy Butler was a big reason why Miami won that game as well as the entire series. It was a 10 point game at the start of the fourth, but Miami scored the first seven points of the frame and never led by fewer than 15 the rest of the way. Miami won Game 7, 103-84, thanks to a 22-15 first quarter and a 27-18 fourth quarter.
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The series ended up going seven games, although Boston benefited from a miracle tip-in at the horn to win Game 6 and send things back to Massachusetts for Game 7. Sure, one doesn’t usually expect the #8 seed to “take longer than expected” to beat the #2 seed, but the fact of the matter is that the Heat were up three games to none against the Celtics. Well, it took a lot longer than expected, believe it or not, but Miami found a way past Boston in the Eastern Conference Finals. Did we expect it to be the two guys that we are getting to see involved in the series when the playoffs started? Prrrrrrrrrretty sure we can say that no one was expecting that to be the case, not even the hardest of hardcore fans of the team in question.
Did we expect to be watching a Marquette guy in the NBA Finals this year? Big picture, yeah, probably.
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