Jimmy Butler won’t play in Game 2 of the Heat‘s second-round series against the Knicks on Tuesday, the team tweets. Knicks forward Julius Randle and guard Jalen Brunson will be available, their PR department tweets.
That trio was listed as questionable to play on Monday. Caleb Martin is starting in Butler’s place, Anthony Chiang of the Miami Herald tweets.
Miami’s Game 1 win gave the Heat more leeway to sit out Butler. He scored 25 points in 43 minutes but only attempted one shot after rolling his right ankle with just over five minutes remaining.
Game 3 won’t be played until Saturday afternoon in Miami, so Butler will have three off-days to heal.
Randle, who is nursing a sprained left ankle, missed Game 1. He only played 16 minutes in the closeout game against Cleveland on April 26 when the ankle flared up.
Brunson, who logged 40 minutes on Sunday, will try to play through a sore right ankle.
Lowry, Duncan, Caleb, Highsmith, Bam
Kevin Love, Strus, Nnamdi, Yurtseven/UD
Is Vincent out, or did he do something to get on your bad side?
Vincent is Nnamdi…
Surprised Randle is playing. Knew Jimmy would sit. Knicks should rolled them ….
Bam dropping 40 on Randle
Randle ain’t checking him …..
I’m so tired of teams throwing up 3s. It’s boring as shhh ….. if you are bigger why are you shooting. When you can go inside outside.
Brunson got no push. His first step is gone. He shouldn’t be playing. I’ve counted at least 4 times when Mitch was open for layup or dunk. Instead they want to throw up shots. Boring as shhh
Brunson is 1-5 with 1 ast. He shouldn’t be playing. Let IQ run it
Officiating in the 4th quarter was a clown show
Bench gm1
Heat – 11 reb, 30 pts
Knicks – 4 reb, 15 pts,
Bench gm2
Heat – 9 reb, 22 pts
Knicks – 14 reb, 12 pts
Our bench won series against Cavs the 4th seed. Right now Heat bench is winning.
Better wake up !!!!
This game was painful to watch. I give the NYK credit for grit, and timely plays, but they were horrible for most of the game. We won, that’s good, but we don’t have 3 more wins while playing like this in us, and that’s a credit to the sport.
Brunson is incredible; he couldn’t dribble around me for most of the game (dribbled off his leg once), but found a way to come up big down the stretch. Hart’s having shooting issues, which are real, but also came up big in the end. Still miss Grimes, the guy wearing his jersey doesn’t shoot. Randle was Randle, it was better than I thought it would be.
Very painful lol. I shut it off with 4 mins to go. Couldn’t take it. And I can’t believe Brunson had 25 pts. Randle and Brunson had no first step. Someone else needs to step. They may not be right till gm 5 ……
The refs ruled that 4th quarter …….. horrible calls.
I think we lucked out here. Thankfully Jimmy was out too. Looking at Randle and Brunson. I don’t see Jimmy playing next gm. Or he may not be right for a few gms. Tough when injuries factor into a series. Oh Well ……
Obi1 where are you. The force is looking for you.