Miami Heat SPOIL Jimmy Butler’s Return | Bam Adebayo Takes Over vs Warriors
Jimmy Butler’s return to Miami was nothing short of electrifying, as the Miami Heat faced off against the Golden State Warriors in a game filled with emotion and intensity. The Heat, led by Bam Adebayo’s dominant performance, showcased their determination to make a statement against their former star.
Wes Goldberg and David Ramil break down the emotional significance of the game, Bam’s standout performance, the fan reactions at the Kaseya Center, and the potential playoff implications for the Heat.
Timestamps
0:00 Intro: Heat crush Warriors in Jimmy Butler return
5:42 Heat’s emotional performance and Jimmy’s flat game
12:09 Pregame events and fan reactions to Jimmy
18:52 Credit cookies: Standout players of the game
24:27 Bam Adebayo’s dominant performance against Jimmy
28:38 Playoff chances and potential turning point
34:06 Debate on retiring Jimmy Butler’s jersey
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48 Comments
bragging rights lol xD just still a mid team
This game does not count
Isn’t Heat supposed to be Tanking Wes that’s what u wanted
I LOVED HEARING THE BOOS EVERYTIME JB TOUCHED THE BALL
🔥 🫂 🤗 🎉❤
Jimmy is not a number 1 option
Bam needs a restraining order against Wes. Jesus. Does he call his wife bam on bed
Yall actually so happy y'all won it's crazy yall beat a f**** beat up injured run down Golden State team that was missing their best player and y'all are so happy about that LMAO man y'all still going to be a first-round exit and hey I actually do want to go to keep winning because if you'll keep winning then you won't get no top 10 pick you get some scrub coming out of college and then you're going to still be that sorry-ass team y'all already are
BAM 💥☄️🌡
glad they finally showed some pride and self respect. well deserved come uppance for jimbo for being suck a dick to his former team. you got what you wanted you could have at least showed some class
As a Heat fan, that was wonderful to watch. It's been a tough season with so much happening, but the team came through last night and owned Butler and the Warriors. I ride with my team through the tough and the good times, last night was one of the good ones. Let's go Heat!
We’re a mid to low team but at least we’re not the Utah Jazz
At the end of the day this team has not been trying to win.. I’ve been telling people all week that they were gonna blow GS out. Now it’s back to losing
Jimmy down playing Heat Culture,well buddy Heat Culture spanked that ass..
yeah I agree. it's like Jimmy became boring. I feel like he's only gonna do his best on the court when steph is there. if he's not there then he's back to his boring Jimmy habbits.
Said it before, Bam should abandon defense and focus on offense like Tyler. People don't care about winning or rebounding or defense . Players are only considered good when they score.
The fans finally saw this team bleed Heat Culture tonight 🙌🏽
If we continue to see an Aggressive Bam/Wiggs/Tyler, how far can we go?
Bam do the same thing.
Standing in the corner taking possessions off.
Y'all got to make a big deal about Bam because its a surprise when he do show up.
Retire Pat.
Let's go Heat.
Hello Wes and David, I thought Jimmy has said in previous interviews that he had no beef with the Heat players that they are "his boys" his problem was with the team administration. However he shows after the blowout who he really is,. not fraternizing nor congratulating "his boys" after the game heading directly to the locker room. What a class act clown.
Glorious
Bam is still trash.
Y'all need to stop.
That's not his mentality.
Such a great game! I see Bam & Wiggins as the same. They’ll always try hard on both ends but you can’t depend on their offensive production. The only two guys you can almost always count on offensively now & into the future are Herro & Ware, but you should be able to count on Bam & Wiggins defensively.
Without Curry, Jimmy could not be the guy. Same as we saw with Heat when others did not step up.. At this stage of his career, Jimmy can not be the go to guy on a game to game basis. Some games, Jimmy can be the man. But more than often, needs to be a contributer, not the go to scorer.
David said that Alonzo morning didn’t win anything! Yes, he did, did you forget that wonderful year where he came off the bench for Shaquille O’Neal?
I wish him the best…but also hold that L😅
The longer version:
Jimmy's a great player. But the reality is his playstyle (1 of 7 from 3 in his last game….a non shooter), his coasting in the reg season which makes it extremely hard to climb to the finals, the very physical style of play (and Tibs miles on his body, etc.), and his age….nah, he ain't a no.1 option no more. All that and his overall decline makes it FO negligence to pay him a max. Also, based on the age of the rest of the roster too (you can't pay a guy for past finals runs when they never won…not even once). Deep down I know he did what was best for him (chase the bag by asking for the Nets who had max cap space or the Suns who have an owner with deep pockets who said he would pay him max)…makes sense esp. When you conaider his off court dramas …BUT, hard to root for a guy who left making such a stink (is he a tough guy or super sensitive when being told to not comment on a team when he wasn't even out there🤔 why not just speal to Pat as a man if you didn't like what he said 🤷🏾♂️ or better yet, prove him wrong instead of quit🤔). Not saying the FO is blameless (they messed up multiple times..Dame was the worse of all imo), BUT, as a Heat fan i'ma ride with the team (players are transient). Go Heat😤
You guys do a lot od double speak, did Jimmy give up on the team and it's trajectory? or did he leave because they didn't extend him? it can't be both, how you gonna say for sure Jimmy would still be in a heat jersey if they offered the extension and then turn around and accuse him of giving up on the team?
It's either or, it has to be about the money or it has to be about the team, quit speaking out of 2 sides of the mouth. grasp what your narrative is and rock with it, stop trying to ride every possible negative narrative even when they contradict each other.
This was the heats nba finals
Im so glad u guys said it, THAT was the version of Jimmy Butler had. Too cool for school, just coasting!
This was the best game of the season and I loved that Heat fans booed Jimmy every second! BAM set the tone early with no BS and I loved it.
Now, that this is over, can we go back to tank mode? 🙏🏽
I don't know why HEAT fans and Bam raving. Warriors was not full strength! MIAMI will be EMBARRASSED OR SWEPT in the PLAY OFFS in the first round if they get there. The game was meaningless, and the HEAT is STILL NO GOOD. A revenge Game??? Foolishness. Jimmy got his money and his desire to be traded. HE IS STILL THE MAN!!!
I AM LOOKING AT THE BIG PICTURE. Winning a one game MEANS NOTHING. BAM, Tyler and Duncan are STILL ordinary. Management needs to do some serious trade and build a good team. WE LOST 1O GAMES STRAIGHT! TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!
Finally, reality smacked Jimmy in the face; he is not a better player than Andrew Wiggs. Wiggs has always been a more willing and better defender; he proved it again last night. The day of the game I went on record, "I want Ware to make Butler taste synthetic leather," and he did it in a beautiful way. Every Heat player played hard on defense. Butler is not a number one guy, he is a complementary player. He could have helped Heat but chose not to so.
SHOUTOUT TO BAM, HERRO, BURKS, KEL'EL, DAVION, AND WIGGINS ‼THAT FELT SO AMAZING TO SPOIL JIMMY'S RETURN GAME LAST NIGHT
So we waited to this game to play good 🤔🤔🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️?
I saw a rookie K. Ware who will give the Heat a promising legit center / forward combo player.
3rd win of the month and y'all popping champagne 😂😂😂. Heat Culture!
What the hell did jimmy do to get his jersey retired except lose? He wasn't good enough to get passed Lebron, he wasn't good enough to get passed boston, he wasn't good enough to get passed Jokic, he isn't good enough to cry and moan out of an organization, quit mid season and expect to be retired. Thank you for your time.
Glad we got that out the way. Now we can turn the page on that chapter and era. We need to get back to tanking lol.. Knowing this team they’ll continue to compete hard, win the play-in, and make the playoffs.
Jimmy was a great player. Now he is just a good player. And he is NOT a $60 million player. And now the Warriors are left holding a $120 million bag for the next 2 years. Those that say scoring isn't everything — I agree. Jimmy can be impactful without scoring. But NOT for $60 million a year. Riley did the right thing. 1- He got rid of a malcontent that was on the decline and taking up over $50 million in cap space. 2- He gained a younger player (Wiggins) at half of Butler's salary who will impact the Heat more than Butler would have from here on out. 3- He gained a nice little PG who can impact the game with his defense and tenacity. 4- He gained a couple of draft picks which they sorely needed.
Those that defend Jimmy say that he should have gotten paid because of what he had done for the team. He DID get paid. TWICE. Next year he would have been one of only 6 players making over $50 million a year. That wasn't enough? Gimme a break. They also say that Riley didn't give Jimmy help. How the HELL could he when there was no money left for another star? They tried to get Lillard, but Portland wanted to rape the Heat out of spite. They ended up getting less from Milwaukee. We dodged a big bullet there because Lillard wasn't going to make a difference. Last year he was mediocre. This year he is better, but now he has blood clots. Remember Chris Bosh? We signed a washed-up Lowry to appease Jimmy. That signing KILLED us. We could have kept Dragic, who was a scoring machine and was being paid a fraction of what Lowry was paid. The Heat did everything in their power to make Jimmy happy. They even limited his minutes. They just didn't cave to his every whim and attitude. But like Mick Jagger said: "You can't always get what you want."
Isn't it funny that now Jimmy is playing every game? The Heat spoiled him. GOOD RIDDANCE. Mark my words, the Warriors will rue the day they gave Jimmy that contract.
About the losing streak, they were DECIMATED by injuries. At one point during the losing streak, they were missing FOUR STARTERS. Wiggins has only played a few games because he missed a lot of time also. In the NBA, when you bring in so many key players in a trade, it takes a long time for the team to establish cohesiveness. And despite all this, during the losing streak, they were still beating the crap out of much stronger teams before folding in the 4th quarter. They could have EASILY been 7-3 instead of 0-10. Go watch the games. Hell, even tonite they were missing their best 3-point shooter (Robinson), and their most versatile player (Jovic). So, NO Shannon, the culture is NOT dead.
Miami heat nba championship this year bcuz they beat warriors without Curry.
David Zo was vital coming off the bench for the championship team with his defense and energy
Heat have been a play-in team with Bam as the 1st or 2nd highest paid player 3 years in a row, in the lowly Eastern Conference. He’s owed $193 million after this year. He frequently disappears in all the biggest games/moments, is atrocious whenever there’s a whiff of actual pressure. He scored 23 points total last year in the 2 do or die play-in games with no Butler. He always stat pads when the Heat are up or down 20. Is a cardboard cutout on d against bigs in the paint, a below average rim protector & rebounder, doesn’t score enough for his salary, and even at the 4, Heat are playing their worst basketball in Franchise History. Bam isn’t a vocal leader & is always first guy to make buddy buddy with the opponent immediately after the Heat lose at Sports, has zero competitive Heat spirit. The writing has been on the wall, don’t let 2 fluke bubble/8 seed runs determine what’s best for the future. Get rid of Bam’s title preventing contract, & get rid of Spo, before the Heat descend further into eternal purgatory
Giving up on a team deserves every sigle fan to boo him period
Good win for the Heat! Now make the playoffs, give the 1st round pick to OKC so they can keep next years 2026 pick
So sad your Enormous paycheck isn't enough to try your best
More like Riley's Revenge…but ok