It’s unclear whether injured Miami star Jimmy Butler will be ready to play Tuesday’s second-round Game 2 against the Knicks until just before tipoff.
“He’s getting treatment around the clock. We probably won’t have any update until before the game,” Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said Monday in a ballroom in the teams NoMad hotel.
“We’ve been in this type of situation the last couple months, with guys being injured and out, and that’s why you build a team,” Kyle Lowry said. “You don’t build a one-player roster, you build a 17-man roster, 15-man roster, for guys to be able to step up. “You’ve got an irreplaceable guy, an unreplaceable guy like Jimmy? If he goes, he goes. If he’s not, we’ve got to find a way to go out there and do our jobs still. We’ve still got to go hoop.”
Butler suffered a sprained right ankle in Game 1 while being fouled by Josh Hart, with Miami listing him as questionable for Tuesday night.“Yeah that’s our mentality: next man up,” Max Strus said. “But hopefully he can play. We’ll see what happens. But whatever we’ve got to do to get the win, we’ll do. We’ll figure it out.”
Jimmy Butler’s status for Game 2 is unknown after he suffered an injury in the series opener against the Knicks.that next-man-up mentality“He’s been such an important piece to us, what we’ve been doing getting to this point but also … how good of a job he’s done getting everybody involved to prep for games like this where he might not be involved and for other guys to step up,” Caleb Martin said.
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