Daily News | Jimmy Butler spent the playoffs carrying the Heat and proving how wrong the Sixers were to let him go
Sometimes Mike Marquis would laugh to himself as he watched TV in the morning, as he listened to the sports-talkers on the take-fests bat around Jimmy Butler as their topic. There was always an element of doubt and mystery to their discussions about Butler. Is he a superstar? Is he not a superstar? “He was still playing this week,” Marquis said. “There were a whole lot of great ones who weren’t.
For Butler’s 17 games of these NBA playoffs, his power to inspire spread beyond just himself, spread to anyone who paid attention to the way he not only raised the level of his play but did so despite a bad knee and his team’s own limitations. The Golden State Warriors and Boston Celtics promise to put on an interesting Finals.
Who made 23% of his three-point attempts during this regular season but 34% of them during the postseason. Who has six games of 40 points or more in his career — all of them in the playoffs, including his 47-point masterpiece in Game 6 at TD Garden, just to give the Heat a chance Sunday night. Who averaged 27.4 points this postseason, 3½ more than he has averaged during any regular season.
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