Butler Tencent News interview feature film is about to be launched How hard is the hardest person in the alliance?

There are many tough guys in the NBA, but only one can be automatically linked to the adjective "hard".

He is Jimmy Butler.

In the summer of 2023, Butler began his China tour, during which he was interviewed by Tencent News. The interview feature film will be available soon, so stay tuned.

Hard in life experience

Butler was one of many black stars who had a tragic life experience and a poor childhood environment.

Butler's childhood was unbearable, his father abandoned his wife and son when he was a baby, and when he was 13 years old, he was kicked out of the house by his mother on the grounds that he was unpleasant. Butler once lived in a fixed place, and later borrowed to live with his friend Leslie's house, which can be regarded as a nest.

Butler never gave up on himself because of his parents' irresponsibility, he survived by tenacity, and found an outlet for life through basketball.

Butler's basketball career did not start well, he was not a star with visible talent, he was not the kind of talent who played early in the AAU league, was invited to various training camps, and was chased by various college giants. Butler was unknown in high school, could not even get a college scholarship, and eventually had to go to preparatory school before entering Marquette University. In college, Butler even thought about giving up basketball, but he survived.

Butler believed that success was something that came out. In 2011, Butler was selected by the Bulls with the No. 30 pick in the NBA Draft, which was not a high pick, but it was still a stage success for a poor boy abandoned by his parents.

the pitch

Butler's hardness on the field is reflected in two points - temperament and performance.

At the beginning of his career, Butler was a flanking blue-collar worker, but he earned a place with the Bulls through hard work and tenacity, and he was proving his quality and proving that he can be the boss of a team without relying on talent. Although Butler's leadership style was questioned by the team's veteran Noah, Butler still topped Rose, who lost momentum due to injury, and became the leader of the Bulls.

In the 2014-15 season, Butler averaged 38.7 minutes per game and ranked first in the league, a true "iron man", his statistics skyrocketed, and he was selected as an All-Star for the first time. Since then, Butler's hard work at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends has begun to be widely recognized.

Butler's real reputation on "hard" was in the Heat era. Butler had mediocre regular-season stats for four seasons, but he led the team to the Eastern Conference Finals three times, including two of them in the Finals. In addition to the 2020-21 season, which was indeed restricted by Antetokounmpo, and the other 3 playoff trips, Butler's statistics have improved greatly compared to the regular season, and he is a true playoff type player, able to play tough battles and survive the big game.

Butler left a lot of classics with tough performances, such as the 2020 playoffs Eastern Conference semifinals against the Bucks' G1, where he scored 40 points. In the Finals and the Lakers' G3, Butler slashed 40 points, 11 rebounds, and 13 assists. In G5, Butler scored another 35 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists. In the 2022 Eastern Conference Finals with the Celtics G6, Butler slashed 47 points to drag the series into a tie-break in the face of adversity that was about to be out. In the G4 match with the Bucks in the first round of 2023, Butler scored 56 points, and G5 he hit a tie ball to drag the game into overtime and slash 42 points, leading the team to achieve the Black Eight miracle to eliminate the Eastern Conference boss Bucks 4-1.

In addition, in the second game between the 2023 Eastern Conference Finals and the Celtics, Butler vividly reflected his temperament and court performance. In the face of Gwe's provocation, Butler fought back, and he singled out Gwee in a row, leading the team to play a 24-9 attack wave to complete the comeback and conquer Boston's TD Garden Arena.

In the past four seasons, Butler's hard work has been popular, partly related to the background. First, the Heat's roster as a whole lacks talent and has been attritioned by injuries on almost every playoff trip, especially in the 2020 Finals (Adebayo and Dragic are injured) and the 2023 playoffs (Oladipo and Hiro reimbursed).

Second, Butler himself has overcome injuries several times, including an ankle sprain in the 2020 playoffs, a knee injury in the 2022 Eastern Conference Finals, and a hip injury and ankle injury in the 2023 playoffs. But Butler never used injuries as an excuse, and he always had a "injury didn't affect me" attitude.

epilogue

The 2023 playoffs have brought Butler's popularity to the peak, and this is Butler's first trip to China since 2017. What interesting stories does Butler have in this interview and what information does he reveal? Stay tuned for the upcoming feature film.