How was Jimmy Butler received on his first comeback game?

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Heat fans are basking in joy with the Heat's 112-86 win over Jimmy Butler and the Golden State Warriors. Jimmy scored 11 points and the Heat showed how classy of an organization they are by giving him a video tribute.

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00:00our boy Tobin is out although he was kind enough to take a break from his

00:06vacation and join us in the first hour to give us a boots on the ground review

00:12how was he submitting that's probably the best way to describe I love that

00:19word submitting not only did he get his his favorite thing of seeing children

00:28dressed in Steph Curry jerseys crying on the way home he also got to see Jimmy

00:35Butler completely freeze in front of the home crowd house of heights and bleach

00:43report and NBA calm will tell you that he was met with cheers and he

00:51acknowledged the crowd and blah blah blah real ones know he was met with

00:58booze every single time he touched the ball wasn't he but he was applauded yeah

01:04there was a when the announcement when his name was announced they played the

01:07video when there was a mixed response for sure because Bobby Marks of ESPN was

01:13on first get up and he was kind of disappointed with this Miami he fans you

01:18know it's another thing that I saw all scum Steve Kerr say afterwards people

01:24were asking him they're weird favorite there that's what he said fair weathered

01:28fans that's he literally brought up the weather he literally mentioned that South

01:35Florida is a great place to live in but it never never really got ruckus as you

01:41would expect like for example a Boston would because Boston is such a

01:45miserable place with miserable people of course they would be angry in any

01:50other scenario much like Philly another place of miserable people in a miserable

01:57city dump of America if I will other than that Steve Kerr had the nerve after

02:06getting spanked to disparage the Miami heat crowd but I know the truth we know

02:13the truth what do you guys think they played the video and we had Mike

02:18Biamonte hitting with the gym me Butler were we okay with that or you know

02:26listen everybody's trying to be professional which is more than I could

02:31say for Jimmy when he was on this side is trying to be prepared and so what I

02:35would say is this here's the thing that I'm amazed with why is everybody shocked

02:43the way Jimmy play that's the way Jimmy played when he was with the heat the

02:46last few months well look no one is shocked as a heat fan we've seen this

02:51all the time but I guess from the outside looking in the lore of Jimmy

02:55Butler surrounds him that when you piss off that bear it doesn't matter he's

03:00gonna come to play and but he's not a pissed-off bear look yeah I mean look you

03:04thought he was gonna drop 50 blood I thought I thought I didn't forget I did

03:09think that he was gonna be petty and the question was if who was gonna be petty

03:13yeah so I thought that definitely he was gonna be petty no Leroy didn't take

03:19that no I know Leroy with Leroy was against he was going I was going he

03:25differed he said no no I didn't know I didn't know that's never been his mo

03:30that's what Leroy said so therefore yeah for the pettiness and for the drama

03:35because you know we all love drama TNT or triple G either way we all love

03:41drama so for the drama for the simple fact that TNT picked up this game they

03:46moved other games picked up this game yeah yeah you wanted to see that you

03:50know I would have loved to hear kaboom you know couldn't do it no you couldn't

03:55do it but the game went the way the Miami Heat would have wanted it was like

04:00it was if there was a game plan that was to a T you was the next was the last

04:07time they shot 68 percent from three point I've never seen that that was an

04:10Alec Burks career game yesterday that was amazing but the only problem 28 the

04:17only problem I have with the heat is that for the last few years you've been

04:26playing Russian roulette with players in hopes that one of them would get hot and

04:31it's paid off most of the time and now it's not because sometimes you change

04:40the lineup and it's still the same result and so that's where I think this

04:47caught up to Miami as far as Jimmy dropping 50 like Jimmy has done it but

04:59that's not his MO his MO is 17 to 22 steals five to ten rebounds five to ten

05:09assists that's that's what he is so my question to you Vlad is as great as

05:17Jimmy is and I'm not disputing that can Jimmy be your number one based on the

05:23style of basketball that he plays no right and the heat got away with it for

05:33a very long time but when he was younger right he could get away with it but he's

05:38gonna be 37 and look I always I've always said this I agree with Pat not

05:42giving him the extension you're not gonna it's makes well it doesn't make

05:45sense to give somebody a two-year extension when they're ready signed and

05:50the extension is when he's gonna be 39 I'm not giving nobody 60 million dollars

05:54he's 39 unless you're LeBron James you're not sorry can't do it but could

06:01my whole thing was you knew where this was gonna lead to both parties knew

06:05where it's gonna lead to and at the end of the day both parties stood to the ML

06:10the heat first-class organization did the things their way no stain on their

06:17jacket no stain on their cloth and Jimmy well Jimmy show who Jimmy has always

06:22been from Chicago to Minnesota to Philadelphia to here and he got his way

06:29so at the end of the day everybody got what they wanted cuz y'all you got Andre

06:35Andrew Wiggins who's playing hell of basketball the last three games maple

06:40Jordan I I'm telling you what I was more shocked not by his scoring ability

06:48because he's a smooth scorer right but the way he defended the wing that right

06:55there was was so special I even saw Tyler you know I know Jimmy Tyler tries

07:02to slap slap the floor yeah exactly he was doing a lot of scooting but uh yeah

07:10people got by it pretty quickly but I think I think here and I'm not saying

07:17Wiggins is better than Jimmy but I would say this Wiggins is more of what the

07:29heat need because you can count on that 20-25 points on a nightly basis right

07:37and when scoring the last couple years has been non-existent

07:46and when you've been searching for scoring and adjusting your lineups

07:51accordingly whether through injury or guys getting cold or whatever I think

07:58it's a perfect fit and it allows if BAM is that aggressive I do believe that

08:05they have a three-headed monster that can score enough points if BAM is not

08:12then you're on the lookout for another 20 points from somebody else and that's

08:17hard to do when you have a roster of 15 guys and you don't know who you can go

08:23to one from night to night and that's what is plagued by me the last couple

08:28years is that they got guys who can score but not guys you can depend on

08:34scoring every night otherwise they wouldn't be coming off the bench

08:39he was minus 19 you saw that his plus-minus was minus 19 well you know

08:47what's not minus 19 yeah what's that his bank account oh no he's I mean look

08:51he's winning at life totally this is the only thing I have yesterday was my

08:54Super Bowl oh yeah NBA final Super Bowl you're not getting that either that's

09:00why yesterday was all-in-one baby all-in-one

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