Miami’s Jimmy Butler was listed as available on the latest injury report for Saturday’s second-round Game 3 against the Knicks.
suffered with five minutes left in the Heat’s Game 1 victory.
The Heat had officially listed Butler as questionable on Friday afternoon’s injury report, but Butler was upgraded to available roughly an hour before tipoff Saturday. “Jimmy’s a different character. So I feel like the will of him is he’s not going to tell you exactly how he feels. For us, he said he feels good: We go with that,” said Miami center Bam Adebayo.
“Just by how he handles certain injuries, I feel like he’s a warrior in that aspect, because he won’t tell you how he truly feels. I feel like he just has that will to win. So he’ll just go out there 50 percent or 60 percent and he’ll tell you he’s fine.” Butler sprained his ankle with five minutes left in Game 1 at the Garden while driving when Knick guard Josh Hart
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