Even thоugh Jimmy Butler missed the Miami Heat’s 111-101 victоry оver the Bоstоn Celtics оn Wednesday night in the 2024 NBA playоffs due tо ιnjury, he still felt persоnally satisfied with the оutcоme.

The Heat player made fun of Jaylen Brown and the Celtics on Instagram by posting this:

The Celtics players would often repeat the remark from the picture after losing their opening three games in the 2023 Eastern Conference Finals. They informed Miami that all it would take to start swinging the series in their favor was one victory.

Those remarks were all but prophetic during Boston’s run of three consecutive wins before running out of gas in the seventh game.

Even though Miami didn’t have an equally difficult road ahead of them going into Wednesday night, many people were already writing the Heat out. They are missing their finest player and lost the first game by a score of twenty points.

They might have turned the rivalry on its head by winning Game 2, since the outcome served to support the preexisting narratives. When the chips are down, Miami is a team that never backs down and always performs at its highest level. Conversely, Boston consistently fails to make an impression on the top platforms.