The NBA regular season officially ended yesterday, and it was a very interesting one filled with plenty of surprises.
The Play In games are next, and whoever came up with the idea for it deserves a raise because it made the games to end the season a lot better from the teams that were trying to stay out to the teams that were trying to stay or get in. Then, the actual Play In games is like game 7’s because it’s win and move on or lose and go home.
The games are set, and one of the more intriguing Play In games will be the seven-seeded Heat vs. the eight-seeded Hawks, with the winner of that game playing the Celtics. Whoever wins will have a tough go, but if it’s the Heat, Jimmy Butler doesn’t want to be considered an underdog.
Things haven’t gone to plan for the Heat since their championship appearance in the bubble, but they’ve stayed afloat for the most part. After Monday’s practice, Jimmy was asked if he was embracing the underdog role, and his response was simple. Nope.
“It’s all the same. Didn’t nobody pick us to win last year, either. So who cares. Y’all not going to pick us this year, still don’t give a damn.
“In 10 years, y’all still not going to pick us. Still don’t give a damn.”
“I’m going to do whatever it takes for my team to win, night in and night out,” Butler said. “And honestly, I could care less what anybody writes, if I was a good basketball player or a bad basketball player. Coach Pat [Riley] and coach [Erik Spoelstra] didn’t bring me here because of what y’all write, in the most respectful way possible. As I take on [Tuesday’s] matchup and we get that dub, we’ll worry about what goes on down the line, but I think I’m going to be a decent basketball player at the end of the day.”
The matchup with the Heat and Hawks is very interesting, and they’re the favorites to win that game, so they have to take care of business before becoming the underdogs first.
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