![]() ![]() After everything he’d done, and he’d done everything, Butler was on the wrong side of the scoreboard and staring down the barrel of LeBron James in a closeout game this was the Heat’s season, slipping away, unless Jimmy could find a drop or two of gas in his tank to hit the accelerator again. run that put the Lakers up 99-96 with 5:32 to go. On a pull-up 3-point attempt with just under seven minutes to go, it looked like his legs had deserted him on a costly turnover in transition shortly thereafter that led to a Kentavious Caldwell-Pope runout dunk, it seemed like his focus had, too. Butler hadn’t scored since Dwight Howard cleaned him out with a flagrant-1 on a putback midway through the third. ![]() But he’d gotten just 48 seconds of rest in that span, with Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra cutting his rotation to the bone and leaning hard on his superstar to give Miami its best chance of staving off elimination. ![]() Jimmy Butler had been brilliant through the first three and a half quarters of Game 5, putting up his second triple-double of the 2020 NBA Finals to keep the Lakers at arm’s length. This is one of the best duels we’ve seen in quite some time.This was it: the moment when the remarkable would finally give way to the inevitable. Just incredible basketball played at the highest level between these two. This is LeBron James's 5th #NBAFinals game with 40+ points and 10+ rebounds, tying Shaq for the most in Finals history /OGExbBZutV His 40-point, 10-rebound performance also was the 5th if his NBA Finals career, tying him with Shaquille O’Neal for the most in league history. Moving on to James, he passed Michael Jordan to become the oldest player in NBA Finals history to score at least 40 points in a game.Īt 35 years, 284 days old, LeBron James has passed Michael Jordan (35y-117d) as the oldest player to drop 40+ in an #NBAFinals game #LakeShow /sStcN7AYjM Entering today, only one player had recorded multiple 30-point triple-doubles in an NBA Finals series: LeBron James in the 2015 NBA Finals /Zw4qYRFio5 Jimmy Butler has now recorded two 30+ point triple-doubles in the NBA Finals. He also just become the second player in Finals history to record at least two 30-point triple doubles in a single Finals series. Jimmy Butler joins Gary Payton as the only players in NBA history to post 35+ PTS, 10+ REB, 10+ AST and 5+ STL in an NBA Playoffs game! /wXlcM2iAj9 The other is Gary Payton, who did it in 2000. Just starting with Butler, he’s now one of two players in NBA history to put up a 30-point triple-double with at least five steals. But the raw totals don’t even begin to tell the whole story. James poured in his own near triple-double with 40 points, 13 rebounds, 7 assists and 6 (!!!!) made three-pointers. Butler played 47 minutes and finished with 35 points, 12 rebounds, 11 assists and 5 steals. Butler was playing just to keep his team alive for another game. LeBron was playing for his 4th championship and a Finals MVP. ![]() Jimmy Butler and LeBron James went toe to toe in game 5 - it was like watching a prize fight on the hardwood. On Friday night, we saw two of the most dominant performances we’ve ever seen in NBA Finals history. ![]()
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