Jimmy’s heat legacy
Just saw a post discussing Jimmy’s likelihood of getting his jersey retrieved in Miami and decided to use a combination of gpt-4 and statmuse to dig up the following.
Jimmy butler :
has 5 of the top 10 highest scoring playoff games in heat history including number 1(56 point game top 4 league wide)
has the most 40 point playoff games in heat history
Is second in heat playoff points per game
is 3rd in heat playoff assists per game
is second in heat playoff triple doubles
first in heat playoff steals per game (more than 15 games)
is second in heat playoff winshares per 48 minutes
is top 4 in heat playoff true shooting percentage
is third in heat playoff PER
is second in heat playoff minutes per game
is third in playoff usage per game
is 4th in heat playoff overall box +- with significant lower average seeding than those above him.
Statistically Jimmy is a top heat playoff performer all time regardless of rings. During his time here has had and likely still has tons of respect from his teammates, has made them better and been a prominent leader through some of the most playoff adversity and long odds.
This drama is messy and there is a lot that isn’t right but if it’s really enough to erase all that is above I think it would really be a shame.