An epic Jimmy Butler brings down the Lakers and unhinges LeBron

• Game 2: The Lakers line the NBA ring

Jimmy Butler

plays with the hunger of someone who had nothing, with the despair of someone who at the age of 13 found himself homeless and bouncing from sofa to sofa until another family wanted to take him in.

He plays hard, he is not afraid of anything and he never gives up.

Where others saw an NBA Finals doomed in advance, with the Lakers dominating the first two games with an iron fist and the Heat losing two of their three pillars, he saw more than a trickle of hope.

How else, if not with inordinate confidence, was he going to put together such a monumental performance to lead Miami's victory in the third round (115-104).

"You're in trouble!" LeBron James yelled at him at the end of the first quarter.

Miami had signed a manual start, had deactivated the Lakers attack (10 losses in 10 minutes, more than in the entire previous game) and had annulled

(0 points, 4 losses), and the only thing he had taken they were a measly three points ahead.

The Heat emptied themselves for 48 minutes and still fell behind in the fourth quarter (89-91).

There Jimmy Butler hit, irrepressible all night attacking the rim: a basket to tie, three assists in a row, and another eight consecutive points to put the sentence one minute from time (109-100).

"You guys are in trouble!"

He responded then, two hours and an exhibition later.

Jimmy Butler finished with 40 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists, the third triple-double in Finals history to reach the 40 mark. Before, only

(1969), the man whose silhouette gives the league image , and LeBron (2015), who in that duel against the Warriors also assumed a huge burden without

or

.

His coach,

, could only surrender to him after the game.

"What else are you going to say? Fucking Jimmy Butler."

Fucking Jimmy Butler.

The guy who showed up on the first day of preseason at 3.30 in the morning to start work as soon as possible.

Yes, that had some posturing, a declaration of intentions, but it is that in summer he does not train much later.

Fucking Jimmy Butler, who led a flawless collective effort: After a second game in which the Lakers slaughtered them in the zone, the Heat bolted the paint.

All were entrusted to protect the rim and cancel Anthony Davis, unstoppable in the first two games.

Not even that ensured victory.

Last Friday, Miami exceeded 50% in field goals, 40% in triples, 90% in free throws, something that had only happened three times before in the history of the Finals, and even then they never had a chance to win. .

As long as

and

are

(and the Slovenian may not be able to return), nothing short of an impeccable match is worth them to win.

The Heat squeezed each point advantage: three at the end of the first act, four at halftime, five at the end of the third.

The defense clouded Davis (15 points, five fouls, missing in the fourth quarter) and LeBron (25 points, 10 rebounds, 8 assists, but 8 losses) but the Lakers only needed a hot streak from a secondary,

, to flip it.

One hammer blow after another, one tackle after another from fucking Butler, tireless and blind with confidence.

Jimmy Buckets is called, for his ability to manufacture baskets in hot moments.

"You guys are in trouble!" He yelled at LeBron after sentencing the game.

An excess that may pay in the next round.

James, unhinged, ended up going to the locker room with 10 seconds left to play, without asking for the change or talking to anyone.

The third game had not finished and the fourth had already started to be played.

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