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Jimmy Butler leaves game vs. OKC after feeling ill


By | December 20, 2024

What's the buzz on Twitter? Anthony Chiang @Anthony_ChiangJimmy Butler (stomach illness) not traveling with the Heat tonight to Orlando.But it's possible that Butler makes the quick trip to Orlando tomorrow for the Heat's game vs. Magic – 11:43 PM Anthony Chiang @Anthony_ChiangWith Jimmy Butler out for the rest of the game and Bam Adebayo back in the locker room, Tyler Herro up to 17 points, 10 rebounds and five assists.Heat on a 10-0 run to turn a nine-point deficit into a one-point lead. – 9:29 PM Anthony Chiang @Anthony_ChiangHeat again going with the starting lineup of Tyler Herro, Duncan Robinson, Jimmy Butler, Haywood Highsmith and Bam Adebayo tonight vs. Thunder. – 7:31 PM Gerald Bourguet @GeraldBourguetBradley Beal on the Jimmy Butler trade rumors: "The same thing until one of them comes and says something to me and talks to me. It's just out there. I'm a Phoenix Sun and I'm here and I'm in a uniform, but I don't pay attention to that, man. They did that with me for 10 years" pic.x.com/trkBiu6alt – 3:39 PM More on this storyline Is there even a world where LeBron James gets traded? I can see Jimmy Butler getting traded, but is there any scenario where LeBron James is traded anywhere in the NBA? CARMELO ANTHONY: LeBron makes the trades. If he wants to get traded, he'll make it happen. I think that window has closed. Maybe there was a point in time, like last year or earlier, where it seemed like it could have been a possibility. People might have thought, "Could this actually happen? Are we interested? Could we pull this off?" But now? It's hard to imagine. The Kuminga part of that trade is a big headline because he's a major piece. -via YouTube / December 20, 2024 Some of it is happening already, glimpses coming from his pace and patience when teams run him off the arc. Some of it will only come to pass as more teams show how they will adjust their scouting reports for Herro's new game. The real test will be postseason games, the adjustments to the adjustments, the counters to the counters. Can Herro be the HEAT player who consistently draws two to the ball, who becomes the engine, not just a major component, of a high-powered, elite offense? "The next step, which he's already improving, is the playmaking aspect," Quinn says. "Whatever the defense does is wrong basically. If you're going to put more guys on me, I'm going to get an assist or make the right play for the team, then I'm going to have my spurts where I have 15 or 20 in a quarter. That's the next step where he can balance that ability to score and playmake for the team. To make the right play over and over and over again is what makes the great players great." Gr eatness is assuredly well within the scope of Herro's endless ambitions. He says he wants to be an All-Star – he'll have his best chance to date playing like this – and he wants to win. Time will tell the story of whether he reaches greatness, true greatness that is remembered long after your final game, and Herro has never been as close to touching it. "He knows he's that guy," says Jimmy Butler. -via NBA.com / December 19, 2024

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