{"id":146988,"date":"2022-12-03T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T13:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/heats-jimmy-butler-returns-in-style-buries-celtics-in-ot-win\/"},"modified":"2022-12-03T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T13:26:10","slug":"heats-jimmy-butler-returns-in-style-buries-celtics-in-ot-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/heats-jimmy-butler-returns-in-style-buries-celtics-in-ot-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat’s Jimmy Butler returns in style, buries Celtics in OT win"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BOSTON — Jimmy Butler, back after missing seven games with a sore right knee, played his first game at TD Garden since his masterpiece in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals back in May.<\/p>\n
And while Butler might not have been quite that impressive in his return Friday night, he still finished with 25 points, 15 rebounds and 3 assists in 36 minutes for the Miami Heat, who survived a miraculous shot in the final seconds by Jaylen Brown to win a 120-116 thriller in overtime over the defending Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n
‘He’s such a winning player,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “I feel like through the first three quarters I didn’t run a play for him. He just finds a way to compete and help your team win.”<\/p>\n
It had looked like Butler had closed the door on the Celtics when he made baskets on back-to-back possessions inside the final minute of regulation — the first coming off an assist from Kyle Lowry, and the second after he got Al Horford to switch onto him and buried a beautiful fall-away jumper with 5.6 seconds to go to put the Heat up by three.<\/p>\n