{"id":436975,"date":"2023-05-30T09:54:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T13:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436975"},"modified":"2023-05-30T09:54:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T13:54:15","slug":"jimmy-butlers-dream-is-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jimmy-butlers-dream-is-still-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Butler&#8217;s dream is still alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Butler promised last year that he would get Miami Heat to the NBA Finals after Boston Celtics eliminated them after 7 matches in the 2022 East Conference finals, and he accomplished what he said.<\/p>\n<p>Heat joined the 1999 NY Knicks as the 8<sup>th<\/sup> seed to reach the championship matches after the Game 7 win against Celtics at TD Garden.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cThe confidence level he can create for everybody on the roster is incredible\u2026 He has a hard edge and he\u2019s gnarly, but he knows how to have soft touch just to give someone some confidence at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Erik Spoelstra on Jimmy Butler&#8217;s leadership ?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wunr6jWtlg\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wunr6jWtlg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClutchPointsApp\/status\/1663388192580435969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Figure out to perform at the same level each game,&#8221; Jimmy shared after that Game 7 loss in 2022 &#8212; one that finished with him missing from the 3-point line that would have potentially won Heat the match. &#8220;Next campaign, we will have experience, and in this type of situation, we will triumph.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just know why manager Pat Riley and head coach Erik Spoelstra wanted me to be a Miami player,&#8221; Jimmy said after the victory when asked about his words last season. &#8220;And that&#8217;s to be able to fight for the championship each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Butler promised last year that he would get Miami Heat to the NBA Finals after Boston Celtics eliminated them after 7 matches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":436156,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18014,17010,17837],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18133,17912,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Miami denies Boston history and will play for the title.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436975"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436975"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}