Is Jimmy Butler Playing Tonight vs Warriors? Miami Heat Release Injury Report on 6x All-Star

The #1 team in the East of last year’s regular season takes on the 2022 Champs in Chase Center, would Jimmy Butler feature for the Miami Heat?

The Miami Heat and Jimmy Butler got themselves a big win Wednesday night in Portland after going 1-3 down to start their 2022-23 season.

It was a tough challenge as they were facing a rejuvenated Blazers who were on a 4-0 run, led by their perennial All-Star guard Damian Lillard and were targeting the league-best record.

Now, on Thursday the Heat continues its road trip and stops in San Francisco, Bay Area for their game against the defending champions, the Golden State Warriors.

Will their MVP play against Stephen Curry and Co in the second back-to-back game for the Heat in the span of just a few days?

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Jimmy Butler will play against the Warriors

Butler is averaging close to 22 points, 6.4 rebounds, and 4.4 assists a game in the season with his team’s W/L record at 2-3.

The Warriors are even on their W/L column at 2-2 and will also be looking to win this one irrespective of how good Butler gets in desperation.

According to the Heat’s injury report, there are no new additions and their leader will play the game unless they decide to sit him out and load-manage him just before the game.

But as far as we know this franchise and ‘Jimmy Buckets’ himself, he is not sitting out when his team is down. So we are going to get a tremendous night of basketball with four exciting games on the card.

Butler would want to win it all this season

Whether you like the man or not Jimmy Butler has been one of the league’s best players for around 3-years or so.

Even with the situation around his team’s starting line-up, the man was a shot away from leading his team to the 2022 NBA Finals in one of the most thrilling games of the last post-season.

Neither franchise president Pat Riley nor Jimmy Buckets would be targeting anything less than a Championship this season and this upcoming game could be useful for making a statement for the same.

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Akash Murty

An Electrical and Electronics Engineer by degree, Akash Murty is an NBA Editor at The SportsRush. Previously a Software Engineer, Murty couldn’t keep himself away from sports, and his knack for writing and putting his opinion forward brought him to the TSR. A big Soccer enthusiast, his interest in basketball developed late, as he got access to a hoop for the first time at 17. Following this, he started watching basketball at the 2012 Olympics, which transitioned to NBA, and he became a fan of the game as he watched LeBron James dominate the league. Him being an avid learner of the game and ritually following the league for around a decade, he now writes articles ranging from throwbacks, and live game reports, to gossip. LA Lakers are his favourite basketball team, while Chelsea has his heart in football. He also likes travelling, reading fiction, and sometimes cooking.

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