Coco Gauff is the world's 6th-ranked women's tennis player. She's also a devout Miami Heat fan.
If all goes well for her, she'll celebrate a Heat championship and her own in the coming weeks. The 19-year-old American is playing in the French Open in search of her first Grand Slam championship. Whenever she's done, she says that she has an open invitation to the NBA Finals, thanks to the confidence of ever-confident Heat star Jimmy Butler.
"I said, 'I won't be here,'" Gauff said of her response to Butler, per AP."'I'll be in Madrid and then Rome and then France.' And then he said, 'OK, when we make the Finals, let me know if your family wants some tickets.' So this was before we were even in the playoffs." "I was like, 'Oh, we're going. We're going to the Finals,'" Gauff continued."So that's my 'Jimmy Butler story.' He pretty much said we were going to the Finals before we even qualified for the playoffs, and I just really like that mentality."The Heat finished with the seventh-best record in the East this season at 44-38.
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