Jimmy Butler and his magic knee

If you gave the Miami Heat zero chance in Game 6, if you assumed the Celtics clinched at home, if you doubted Jimmy Butler’s ability to walk, yo, you were fine for that. If you skipped the game, Friday night on a party weekend, it’s understandable.

But Butler did it, went off, Heat won Game 6 111-103. I don’t know where he got the knees or how he settled on the thighs but it was like Game 5 never happened.

Like Game 4 wasn’t a thing. Like he never played for Thibs. Like Jimmy Butler didn’t sit out the second half of Game 3 with a wrecked knee and then play the next two games like his feet would separate from his ankle if he jumped.

Like all of our assumptions were stupid. Which they weren’t. Though apparently they were: