Back in 2022, Jimmy Butler predicted the Miami Heat would win in the conference finals in 2023. Hmm . he was right.
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Jimmy Butler of the Miami Heat predicted a Game 7 win — a year ago.
All hail Jimmy Butler, the NBA’s resident soothsayer extraordinaire.
Yes, it was one year ago that Butler, having only moments earlier missed a desperate 3-pointer that would have sent the Heat to the NBA Finals, declared, “We had enough. Next year, we will have enough. And we’re gonna be right back in this same situation and we’re gonna get it done.”
“Next year we will have enough and we gonna be right back in this same situation and we’re gonna get it done.”
Jimmy Butler after losing the 2022 Eastern Conference Finals
Called his shot. ✅pic.twitter.com/8Ma01nDXTu
Action Network (@ActionNetworkHQ) May 30, 2023
Just to reset the context: A year ago, Butler and the Heat faced the Celtics in the Eastern Conference finals, a wild series that went seven games before Boston toppled the Heat in the finale. Butler missed a 3-point try with 16 seconds to play that would have given Miami its first lead of the game and would have seen the Heat storm back from a 12-point deficit with less than six minutes to play.
He missed the shot, the Celtics went to the Finals, and he vowed it would not happen again.
