Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler may be a killer on the basketball court, but the six-time All-Star he’s just a dad who wants to spend time with his daughter off the court.
following miami shocking Game 5 win about the Milwaukee Bucks, who advanced the Heat to the second round of the NBA Playoffs, Butler was asked about his plans between series.
Jimmy Butler, #22 of the Miami Heat, celebrates a play during Round One of Game Five of the 2023 NBA Playoffs on April 26, 2023 at the Fiserv Forum Center in Milwaukee. (Gary Dineen/NBAE via Getty Images)
«I’m going to play with my daughter, man,» Butler said after the game. «I love her to death. I miss her. I’ve been gone a long time. We go get ice cream, we go to the park, we do a lot of different things.»
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Butler has earned a time out after the series he had against the bucks.
Milwaukee was expected to quickly dispatch the Heat after Miami needed a win against the Chicago Bulls in the NBA play-in tournament to reach the playoffs.
The Bucks won 58 regular season games and earned the top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
Jimmy Butler, #22 of the Miami Heat, shoots over Bobby Portis, #9 of the Milwaukee Bucks, during the first half of Game 5 of the Eastern Conference First Round Playoffs at Fiserv Forum on April 26, 2023 in Milwaukee. (Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
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However, it was Butler and the sizzling 3-point shots from his Miami teammates that sent Milwaukee home earlybecoming the sixth seed to lose to an eight seed.
«We just played hard,» Butler said, according to ESPN. «We know what we are capable of. We don’t hear outside noise and we won’t hear any outside noise.»
«We’re going to do what we do.»
Jimmy Butler, #22 of the Miami Heat, looks on after the game against the Milwaukee Bucks during Game 5 of Round 1 of the 2023 NBA Playoffs on April 26, 2023 at the Fiserv Forum Center in Milwaukee. (Jeff Haynes/NBAE via Getty Images)
Butler scored a franchise playoff-record 56 points in Game 4 and followed it up with a 42-point performance to shut out the Bucks.
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«He is desperate, urgent, manic and sometimes psychotic with the will to try to win.» Miami head coach Erik Spoelstra. said of Butler. «He’ll make everyone in the building feel it. That’s why he is us and we are him. That’s the way we operate too.»
Miami will now renew an old-school rivalry with the New York Knicks in the second round.
Associated Press contributed to this report