{"id":491489,"date":"2025-03-26T07:54:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=491489"},"modified":"2025-03-26T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:55:08","slug":"heat-defeat-warriors-112-86-in-butlers-return-to-miami","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/heat-defeat-warriors-112-86-in-butlers-return-to-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat defeat Warriors 112-86 in Butler\u2019s return to Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Butler was on the bench and watched almost one minute video of his Miami Heat highlights play on the big screen above him at Kaseya Center.<\/p>\n<p>After that, Miami trashed Golden State without Steph Curry 112-86 in front of a packed venue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still love the city and the supporters here,\u201d Jimmy shared. \u201cThe tribute was classy. I won\u2019t hide that I got emotional. I wanted to win the match for the Warriors, but it didn\u2019t happen. We will get back stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Heat star was booed the majority of the time when he touched the ball, missed 5 of his 1<sup>st<\/sup> 6 shots, as he ended the game with only 11 points, 6 boards, and 2 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Heat\u2019s starting 5 all finished with double-digits, led by \u00a0Bam Adebayo&#8217;s 27 points and 8 boards.<\/p>\n<p>Golden State began this 6-match road trip with 2 straight defeats against the Hawks and the Heat. Warriors superstar Curry didn\u2019t play in both games with a pelvic contusion, although Kerr revealed he thinks Steph will be able to play in the team\u2019s next match at the end of the week against the Pelicans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI continue to say that I\u2019m very grateful, and I ain\u2019t spiteful towards nobody.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Butler debriefs his return to Miami as a Golden State Warrior. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5mcfxQauug\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5mcfxQauug<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCenter\/status\/1904741678361047238?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Butler was on the bench and watched almost one minute video of his Miami Heat highlights play on the big screen above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":491490,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16989,18014,17010,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17876,18133,17912,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The Floridian team spoiled Jimmy's return to his former team.","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\/491489"}],"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=491489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491491,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491489\/revisions\/491491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491489"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=491489"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=491489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}