Butler’s Big Night and Playoff Tensions Rise in NBA

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00:00Butler had the big night with all the points,

00:03and that last rebound over Adams sealed the deal.

00:06It certainly did.

00:08And really, a lot of the guys even said, you know,

00:10it looked like he couldn't even really do much for the first three quarters of the game.

00:14But then all of a sudden in the fourth quarter is when he really came alive.

00:17Kerr said if it was the regular season, Butler might have missed another week or two.

00:21But it is the playoffs, and you got playoff Jimmy.

00:23Steph Curry was certainly happy to see him out there.

00:26But sheer determination and will, you know, we held it down in game three,

00:32and I know he wanted to be out there, and injuries are tough, especially in the playoffs.

00:40But for him to gut through that first half and get the wheels going

00:45and then get turned up, second half, both ends of the floor,

00:50it's why he is who he is and why he means so much to us.

00:53So it was, you know, a gutty performance for sure.

00:59He can play.

01:00There's no denying it.

01:02And then when he's done with you, he'll tear your team into shreds, into pieces.

01:06He'll peel you apart like an orange.

01:09I mean, he really does a number on teams when he leaves.

01:12He certainly does.

01:14Now, also last night, especially in the first half,

01:18we talked yesterday that there was eventually going to be a fight in this series.

01:22Like, it's going to happen.

01:22There's going to be some kind of physical altercation.

01:25Now, there wasn't a fight per se, but it came pretty close twice in the first half

01:30of guys pushing and shoving, having to be separated.

01:34And, of course, Draymond and Dylan Brooks were really at the center of those things.

01:39They handed out some technicals on that play where Steph kind of gave Brooks the business.

01:44And then Brooks kind of tried to rip the ball from him.

01:47There was also a moment in the second half where I guess the cameras caught Jimmy Butler

01:52saying some unflattering things to Dylan Brooks, I guess, over by the free throw line or wherever

01:58they were.

01:58Here's Butler after the game.

02:00I feel like he speaks for not just his teammates, but maybe everybody in the NBA.

02:05Jimmy, you and Dylan got into it.

02:06It looked like you guys were having fun.

02:08I took it back to the playground almost, it looked like.

02:10What was it like out there?

02:11And it looked like you guys were, like, going back and forth.

02:14Did you enjoy that element of the game?

02:16No, we're not having fun.

02:18Give me a record for this.

02:19I don't like Dylan Brooks, so we're never having fun.

02:22I'm a fierce competitor.

02:23He's a fierce competitor.

02:25But there ain't nothing fun about that.

02:27So when you look at some of the pictures, I was looking at the pictures, it looked like

02:30he was trying to have fun, but you weren't going for it.

02:33No, I'm not going for that.

02:34I don't think anybody is trying to be friends with anybody on either team, that's for sure.

02:42Fun is winning, fun is competing, and it's going to be fun whenever we get four.

02:47Yeah, like, honestly, how much of a goofball are you, the reporter?

02:53Like, it really looked like you guys were having fun.

02:55Like, what in that confrontation came across to you as fun?

03:01Like, this is like, you called him a bitch and a pee, and he's like, I will beat the, you know, out of you.

03:08Like, he was like, it was obvious to me he can't stand him.

03:12No one can stand Dylan Brooks, but I think it goes both ways.

03:18I think teammates like Jimmy to an extent, and then eventually they don't.

03:23Like, I got to tell you, if I were Hero and Bam, and like, I cannot believe Hero still talks about this guy.

03:30Like, I can't win without him.

03:32That's what he said this week.

03:33He's like, I'm nothing without him.

03:34And I'm like, this guy destroyed your team, and you're still nobbing him?

03:39Like, really?

03:39Like, I would have been the first one to say, this mother Pharreller.

03:43I mean, the blood this guy left in the kitchen floor.

03:46I mean, this guy, and I, listen, I don't know how many times I've said on this show, he's a great player.

03:52I don't deny that.

03:54I know he's got game.

03:56He's mad talented.

03:58But I just don't like the way he, I mean, he's moved around more than a United Van Lines.

04:02As Mike Lang used to say, I mean, this guy, how many teams has he been on?

04:07How many teams?

04:08And don't tell me he didn't destroy the Miami Heat.

04:11He destroyed them so bad that last night they got bent over and asked, I mean, whipped by 55.

04:20And you know whose fault that was?

04:22His.

04:23It was Jimmy Butler's fault what happened to the Miami Heat in that four-game series.

04:27It's his fault.

04:28He destroyed that team the day he started complaining and whining and bitching and moaning his way to Golden State.

04:36Don't even tell me I'm wrong either.

04:37Don't even get me started.

04:38I'm already got a fever.

04:40I already am coughing.

04:41Don't get me started.

04:42I'm already sweating under the suit.

04:44Leave me alone.

04:45I know I'm right.

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