Jimmy Butler has been named the Most Valuable Player of the Eastern Conference Finals, according to the NBA (via Twitter).
The Heat stymied the Celtics’ bid to become the first NBA team to win a best-of-seven series after trailing 3-0. Butler had 28 points, seven rebounds, six assists and three steals as Miami thumped Boston on the Celtics’ home court by a score of 103-84.
For the series, Butler averaged 24.7 points, 7.6 rebounds and 6.1 assists as the eighth-seeded Heat continued their improbable postseason run. The only other No. 8 seed to reach the Finals was the 1999 Knicks. This year’s Finals will begin at Denver on Thursday.
Caleb Martin certainly made a strong case for Eastern Conference MVP with his 26-point, 10-rebound performance in Game 7. Martin averaged 19.3 points and 6.4 rebounds while making 48.9% of his 3-point attempts over the course of the series. Butler edged out Martin 5-4 in the voting by the media panel (Twitter link).
Well, it was a tough series, but the Heat doubters are disappointed again.
And how about the Heat dispatching the Celtics after the Panthers dispatching the Bruins a couple of weeks ago.
Boston and E!SPN must be ticked off at Miami again.
Yeah doubters ???? I see you just came out of hiding …….. Heat deserve it. After almost blowing it. No way they are beating Denver. The ride is over ……
You yourself were doubting Jimmy, saying that even guys like Zo & Hardaway were better than him, SMH!
Clearly LBJ is much better than him, probably even D-Wade but them 2 no way my friend, Butler is better & has a much greater drive to win, that is a fact!
Having said all that, MIA ain’t gonna win, this is DEN year, actually the year of the Jokic!
Not saying Knicks would have won. But it would have been nice seeing Patrick and Camby go up against Duncan and Robinson. Patrick played with a broken tibia against Pacers. Always the warrior.
Jimmy Butler best 2way player in the game. He’s all about winning. And understands what it takes. Sixers process has to be the dumbest way EVER to let him go.
I believe the sixers would have a title if they kept Butler. Everyone was all about Ben Simmons and Tobias harris. I said butler doesn’t like Simmons and embiid and Simmons don’t play well together. Simmons had his greatest year when embiid was hurt alot. Embiid came back and it was his team and Simmons couldn’t handle that. They could of kept butler/embiid/Harris traded Simmons for a haul at the time. And butler does feel slighted I believe he made comments after a game Tobias harris over me ?
Sixers have way to many misses with the process-okafor/Simmons/fultz the trade up for fultz with Boston when everyone knew the lakers were taking lonzo no matter what at two. Sixers were at 3 Boston was at 1 I was pretty damn sure Boston was taking Tatum no matter what. Then the mikal bridges trade in the draft for zhaire smith. Maxey and embiid have worked out. Hopefully they can build around them but the sixers are full of bad mistakes
Way to go Jimmy! What a monster. Going to be a great finals
Silver to Jimmy: Can you stretch this one to 7 please?
Refs*
Please Miami win this. Jokic is a joke on defense. Just a fat bully running into and pushing people. Never averaged one block per season in his career. Jimmy deserves this over the fake people’s champion
Silver to refs. Denver in 7
Didn’t someone in here say Jimmy was going to win MVP? Oh wait, that was me!! Ahahahahaha!!!!!
You also said the series was rigged for the Celtics. Ahahahaha!!
It was
He also claimed that it was all “fixed” to be Lakers/Celtics. HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yes I did say that. I’ll admit that
It is fixed though. Wake up and open your eyes HAHAHAHA
Too bad you were afraid to actually bet money on it. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Broken clocks and keyboard tuff guys…
That’s like betting money on WrestleMania. No thanks. Want to meet up in person? Stop projecting onto me
Caleb Martin FTW. Guy deserved it and is making himself a hell of a bag
I think you and the tnt guys from last night are confused. Martin is already under contract the next 2 years about 2/15. So I don’t know how he making himself money when he isn’t free agent til 2025
Theo buddy. He’s getting paid jack s**t right now all things considered. He’s earned himself a starting gig for next year or at minimum a 30 minute bench role, even with a healthy Herro. When the deal expires, he’ll be making exponentially more money
He literally just had 30 mins a night this year Jacob…
Extension eligible next year last year is a PO …
Heat needs to trade Herro asap before his extension kicks in
Yes he is under contract and now looks like a total steal for the Heat
I think Caleb should have been the MVP. From undrafted to MVP of de ECF sounds like a pipe dream. He averaged 3/4 points less but much more efficent, he guarded too Tatum a ton and did an amazing job, even crashing the boards.
Preach it. Theo is a casual
Theo probably one of the only posters on here still dunking.
Gonna be super fun watching Miami get exposed and systematically DESTROYED by Jokic and the Nuggets. Nuggets in 5
They get exposed and systematically Adapt
This will go 7 games
Miami will win because they have what it takes as they showed in sweeping the Bucks and upsetting the Celtics
By far Butler is my favorite player to watch in the game today. Wished he was still in Philly
Why are you complaining you have the MVP…lol
You know why I like Jimmy so much. He’s not afraid to speak out. And call out so called talented players. He will butt heads with management too. If they cater to these soft stars. Winning takes work and commitment. You have to work your ares off for that. He knows there are players who just show up. He won’t stand for that.
The Thibs Bulls teams were overachievers. Then the TWolves were only Tpuppies. Then the Sixers didn’t know what they wanted. Jimmy has always know what it takes. And the Bulls just didn’t have enough. TPuppies didn’t have it. And the Sixers were processing it.
He went to a culture that was all about working to win and get better. Pat Rylie has been doing that since Magic Lakers. Then he helped build the Ewing Knicks. Then he brought in Spoelstra to continue it in Miami. Jimmy and Bam are brothers from different mothers. He is the definition of MVP. Plays both ways to win. Best 2way player in the NBA