Jimmy Butler just “LeBron’d” the Celtics

[AirBonner]

45pts :biggums:don’t see the Celtics recovering from this

[ImKobe]

47*

He outdid Bran 10 years after the original massacre against a better Celtics team and he did it in crunch time. GOAT shit.

[coastalmarker99]

47*

He outdid Bran 10 years after the original massacre against a better Celtics team and he did it in crunch time. GOAT shit.

LeBron's stats: 45 pts on 73% shooting, 15 rebounds, 5 assists, 0 steals, 0 blocks, and 4 turnovers.

Butler's stats: 47 pts on 55% shooting, 9 rebounds, 8 assists, 4 steals, 1 block, and 1 turnover.

Obviously, stats don't tell the whole story, but Butler's performance tonight was nothing short of iconic.

[Derka]

No he didn’t. Celts had a lead in the 4th. This was a winnable game. Jaylen Brown bricking two free throws was a back breaker we never recovered from. Butler was amazing but this loss was largely self-inflicted.

That Lebron game…we were never in that game for a moment. Start to finish, he owned that Celtics team’s collective soul.

[Axe]

Well, that's iconic than curry's 47-point game in game 3 of the 2019 finals.

[1987_Lakers]

47*

He outdid Bran 10 years after the original massacre against a better Celtics team and he did it in crunch time. GOAT shit.

"Butler's 2020 run was a fluke" - Imkobe

[aj1987]

47*

He outdid Bran 10 years after the original massacre against a better Celtics team and he did it in crunch time. GOAT shit.

LeBron didn't need crunch time. He massacred them once he touched the ball. Both are ATG games though. These two games shit on any game Rapebe every played in the PO's though. :cheers:

[hold this L]

No he didn’t. Celts had a lead in the 4th. This was a winnable game. Jaylen Brown bricking two free throws was a back breaker we never recovered from. Butler was amazing but this loss was largely self-inflicted.

That Lebron game…we were never in that game for a moment.

That makes this more impressive, he did while it was close while the other was a blowout.

[Bronbron23]

45pts :biggums:don’t see the Celtics recovering from this

LeBron'd? So they watched the Celticst at home from their couch:roll:

[ImKobe]

LeBron's stats: 45 pts on 73% shooting, 15 rebounds, 5 assists, 0 steals, 0 blocks, and 4 turnovers.

Butler's stats: 47 pts on 55% shooting, 9 rebounds, 8 assists, 4 steals, 1 block, and 1 turnover.

Obviously, stats don't tell the whole story, but Butler's performance tonight was nothing short of iconic.

Stats are very even tbh, Bran has the FG% & rebounds but Jimmy had a better all-around game and he did half of his damage in crunch time while Bran obliterated Boston in the first 3 quarters. Very impressive for Jimmy to do this at 32, and he played with a bad knee and turned his ankle in the 4th as well and had 19 in the 4th IIRC.

[AirBonner]

LeBron'd? So they watched the Celticst at home from their couch:roll:

:lol:lol:lol

[ImKobe]

LeBron didn't need crunch time. He massacred them once he touched the ball. Both are ATG games though. These two games shit on any game Rapebe every played in the PO's though. :cheers:

Celtics had the 27th ranked offense in 2012, this team is much better if we're keeping it a buck.

[Taurus]

Butler had an all-time great game, but that Bron game was a dominance I don't think has been replicated in the playoffs since

[SouBeachTalents]

Two very different games. LeBron had Miami in control from the opening minutes, while Butler was needed until the very end. But the parallels of a Game 6 of the ECF down 3-2 in Boston, exactly 10 years apart is trippy.

[Gohan]

Butler had an all-time great game, but that Bron game was a dominance I don't think has been replicated in the playoffs since

You didnt see iverson game 5 against toronto after he won mvp lebron can only dream

[Wally450]

Jimmy was so cool calm and collective the whole night. It was scary.

[aj1987]

Celtics had the 27th ranked offense in 2012, this team is much better if we're keeping it a buck.

Why are we looking at offense? We should be talking about defense and that team was the #1 defense.



You didnt see iverson game 5 against toronto after he won mvp lebron can only dream

He scored half his points in garbage time after the game was beyond done. AI is trash and was trash. Deal with it.

[Full Court]

Don't insult Butler like that. Bronie always had far more help than Butler has.

[Taurus]

You didnt see iverson game 5 against toronto after he won mvp lebron can only dream

What the hell are you even talking about? Even if I was to rank Iverson's game that high, that was still well before Bron's game against the Celtics

[warriorfan]

Op is a cuck

[coin24]

LeBron'd? So they watched the Celticst at home from their couch:roll:
:roll::roll:

[Atlantis]

Jimmy Butler is Michael Jordan's son. That's the only explanation for this performance. I'm in disbelief.

[Spurs m8]

Op is a cuck

Absolute cvck behaviour.

Gross

[FKAri]

Lebron's game was more dominant. Butler's was more about trading blows with the other team and coming out on top with timely buckets.

[Johnny32]

Lebron's game was more dominant. Butler's was more about trading blows with the other team and coming out on top with timely buckets.

yeah. lebron had 30 on 12-14 fgs at the half and 41 on 17-22 fgs thru 3 qtrs. mia had a double digit lead at halftime and end of 3rd qtr.

[StrongLurk]

What's crazy is I still see plenty of people claiming Jimmy Butler is "not a true 1st option"...I love the NBA but hate the fanbase. NBA fans are easily the dumbest and most ignorant out of major sports (football, baseball, soccer). Seriously, there are SO many casual NBA fans that barely watch, yet for some reason feel FULLY confident in giving their opinions on players and teams.

[tpols]

Except LeBron faced an old version while he played on a super team and butler is facing prime Cs with lackluster help. Wade was way better than Bam. That would be like letting Butler play with a top 5 superstar.

[1987_Lakers]

Nobody will ever top LeBron's game 6.

You can’t imagine what this was like to witness in person. I know Michael Jordan had similarly astonishing games, and others, too, but not with stakes like that. This wasn’t just an elimination game. This was LeBron James’s entire career being put on trial … and it only took an hour for him to tell the jury, “Go home. I’m one of the best players ever. Stop picking me apart. Stop talking about the things I can’t do. Stop holding me to standards that have never been applied to any other NBA player. Stop blaming me for an admittedly dumb decision I never should have made. Stop saying I’m weak. Stop saying that I don’t want to win. Stop. Just … stop.”

As a Celtics fan, I was devastated. As a basketball fan, I appreciated the performance for what it was. One of the greatest players ever was playing one of his greatest games ever. He swallowed up every other relevant story line. Needless to say, the Celtics couldn’t match him — especially Pierce, who’s worn down from four weeks of battling Andre Iguodala, Shane Battier and LeBron on one leg and appears to be running on fumes of his fumes’ fumes at this point. The fans were so shell-shocked that many (including me and my father) filed out with three minutes remaining, not because we were lousy fans, not to beat the traffic, but because we didn’t want to be there anymore. We wanted to get away from LeBron. He ruined what should have been a magical night. We never really had a chance to cheer, swing the game, rally our guys, anything. He pointed a remote control at us and pressed “MUTE.” It was like being in a car accident. LeBron James ran over 18,000 people.

Leaving the arena, I noticed that same relentlessly eerie silence from the previous night in Los Angeles. Two different sports, two different coasts, same sound. My father and I strolled slowly back to his Beacon Hill house, moving like zombies with hundreds of other fans. You could hear horns beeping, bottles getting kicked, that’s about it. If I were 9 years old, I would have been crying just as hard as I did after the ’78 Sox-Yankees playoff game. I stopped crying about sports a long time ago. I never stopped caring. This one hurt.

“I’m sorry you flew back for that one,” my father finally said.

“I’m not sorry,” I said. “That was an amazing performance. I’m glad I was there.”

- Bill Simmons

[Shooter]

Except LeBron faced an old version while he played on a super team and butler is facing prime Cs with lackluster help. Wade was way better than Bam. That would be like letting Butler play with a top 5 superstar.

Mmm, no.

Wade took 17 shots to get 17 points in that 2012 ECF gm6
Lowry took 14 shots to get 17 points in that 2022 ECF gm6

LeBron's next highest scoring teammate was Mario Chalmers :lol who scored 9
Butler had three teammates score 9 or more: Tucker, Strus, and Oladipo

Butler played great but don't try to jump on the King's back. They're not close. Next

[Shooter]

Nobody will ever top LeBron's game 6.

You can’t imagine what this was like to witness in person. I know Michael Jordan had similarly astonishing games, and others, too, but not with stakes like that. This wasn’t just an elimination game. This was LeBron James’s entire career being put on trial … and it only took an hour for him to tell the jury, “Go home. I’m one of the best players ever. Stop picking me apart. Stop talking about the things I can’t do. Stop holding me to standards that have never been applied to any other NBA player. Stop blaming me for an admittedly dumb decision I never should have made. Stop saying I’m weak. Stop saying that I don’t want to win. Stop. Just … stop.”

As a Celtics fan, I was devastated. As a basketball fan, I appreciated the performance for what it was. One of the greatest players ever was playing one of his greatest games ever. He swallowed up every other relevant story line. Needless to say, the Celtics couldn’t match him — especially Pierce, who’s worn down from four weeks of battling Andre Iguodala, Shane Battier and LeBron on one leg and appears to be running on fumes of his fumes’ fumes at this point. The fans were so shell-shocked that many (including me and my father) filed out with three minutes remaining, not because we were lousy fans, not to beat the traffic, but because we didn’t want to be there anymore. We wanted to get away from LeBron. He ruined what should have been a magical night. We never really had a chance to cheer, swing the game, rally our guys, anything. He pointed a remote control at us and pressed “MUTE.” It was like being in a car accident. LeBron James ran over 18,000 people.

Leaving the arena, I noticed that same relentlessly eerie silence from the previous night in Los Angeles. Two different sports, two different coasts, same sound. My father and I strolled slowly back to his Beacon Hill house, moving like zombies with hundreds of other fans. You could hear horns beeping, bottles getting kicked, that’s about it. If I were 9 years old, I would have been crying just as hard as I did after the ’78 Sox-Yankees playoff game. I stopped crying about sports a long time ago. I never stopped caring. This one hurt.

“I’m sorry you flew back for that one,” my father finally said.

“I’m not sorry,” I said. “That was an amazing performance. I’m glad I was there.”

- Bill Simmons

I still say it's his greatest achievement when you account for the pressure and how shitty his teammates were.

And then from that series in 2012 to 2016 LeBron had the greatest five year stretch in NBA history.

5 years
5 Finals
5 MVPs (12 MVP, 12 FMVP, 13 MVP, 13 FMVP, 16 FMVP)
3 Goat chips (12 Thunder, 13 Spurs, 16 Warriors)

No one has ever made 5 Finals in 5 years and won 5 MVPs. Unbreakable peak.

[tpols]

Mmm, no.

Wade took 17 shots to get 17 points in that 2012 ECF gm6
Lowry took 14 shots to get 17 points in that 2022 ECF gm6

LeBron's next highest scoring teammate was Mario Chalmers :lol who scored 9
Butler had three teammates score 9 or more: Tucker, Strus, and Oladipo

Butler played great but don't try to jump on the King's back. They're not close. Next

Old Kyle Lowry has missed half the playoffs and is nowhere near '11 or '12 Dwayne Wade. The fact that you even tried to make this argument is embarrassing in and of itself. Lowry shot 5-14 yesterday lol. Bam had 6 points.

Jimmy had to put the whole team on his back to barely escape with a win. Tatum had 30 on 75% shooting. Nobody on the 2012 Celtics was even capable of that. I remember that 2012 game 6... Shit was over in the 1st half. It was a joke. They were playing a bunch of dinosaurs in their last year with Boston while this Celtic team is pure prime. Butlers game was more impressive.

[Shooter]

Old Kyle Lowry has missed half the playoffs and is nowhere near '11 or '12 Dwayne Wade. The fact that you even tried to make this argument is embarrassing in and of itself. Lowry shot 5-14 yesterday lol. Bam had 6 points.

Jimmy had to put the whole team on his back to barely escape with a win. Tatum had 30 on 75% shooting. Nobody on the 2012 Celtics was even capable of that. I remember that 2012 game 6... Shit was over in the 1st half. It was a joke. They were playing a bunch of dinosaurs in their last year with Boston while this Celtic team is pure prime. Butlers game was more impressive.

I never mentioned Bam, you did. I'll say it again

LeBron's 3rd highest scorer was MARIO CHALMERS, who scored 9
Butler had 3 guys score 9 or more: Strus, Tucker, and Oladipo

I also never said Lowry was better than Wade overall, but for that one game he outproduced him.

Wade: 17 points on 17 shots
Lowry: 17 points on 14 shots

They're not close. Try to go for someone easier to tear down with a weak legacy like Kobe. LeBron is untouchable.

[coastalmarker99]

His game 6 performance means nothing now in the grand scheme of things at least Lebron won his game seven against the Celtics in 2012.

[Spurs m8]

Old Kyle Lowry has missed half the playoffs and is nowhere near '11 or '12 Dwayne Wade. The fact that you even tried to make this argument is embarrassing in and of itself. Lowry shot 5-14 yesterday lol. Bam had 6 points.

Jimmy had to put the whole team on his back to barely escape with a win. Tatum had 30 on 75% shooting. Nobody on the 2012 Celtics was even capable of that. I remember that 2012 game 6... Shit was over in the 1st half. It was a joke. They were playing a bunch of dinosaurs in their last year with Boston while this Celtic team is pure prime. Butlers game was more impressive.

Shooter went full retard, AGAIN

[Axe]

His game 6 performance means nothing now in the grand scheme of things at least Lebron won his game seven against the Celtics in 2012.
+1

Good effort tho.

[kawhileonard2]

His game 6 performance means nothing now in the grand scheme of things at least Lebron won his game seven against the Celtics in 2012.

Lebron had to switch teams and franchises.

[Full Court]

He actually did just Lebron the Celtics....by missing the go-ahead shot with 20 seconds left.

He went full Bronie.

[coastalmarker99]

Lebron had to switch teams and franchises.

So did Butler lol.