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“Jimmy Butler is having an MVP-level impact”: Crazy on-off rating differential reveals how the Heat star is spearheading them to another playoff run

Tonoy Sengupta
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"Jimmy Butler is having an MVP-level impact": Crazy on-off rating differential reveals how the Heat star is spearheading them to another playoff run

Jimmy Butler has some eyebrow-raising stats which highlight his importance to the Miami Heat and their resurgence of late.

After the Miami Heat made it all the way to the NBA finals last year, there were great expectations for Jimmy Butler and the franchise going into this season. Unfortunately, they started the campaign incredibly slowly and almost seemed completely out of the race for the playoffs at times.

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Fast forward to today though, and the franchise sits 4th in the East and has won 10 of its last 11 games. In case it wasn’t obvious already, the team has found its groove again. They are back to their best, and it’s all because of the return of Jimmy Butler.

If you are a hater of the Heat superstar, look away now, because you will not want to see this.

An astounding stat highlights just how valuable Jimmy Butler is to the Miami Heat

Jimmy Butler had been out at various different times during the early parts of the season. This along with injuries to some of their other players as well played a huge role in the franchise ‘underperforming’ at the time.

The team still has key players like Bam Adebayo and Avery Bradley out with injuries at the moment. And yet, Jimmy Butler has been able to steer this team to one of the top seeds in a competitive Eastern Conference. If that doesn’t scream MVP, we don’t know what does.

It gets even better though. reporter for the Miami Herald, Anthony Chiang recently put out a very telling tweet showing numerical proof of Jimmy Butler’s impact.

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The team has had to face immense criticism in the early parts of the season. But with their star now back on the court, it seems the Miami Heat are ready to trade blows with the best in the NBA once again.

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Tonoy Sengupta

Tonoy Sengupta

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Tonoy Sengupta is a Senior Editor at The SportsRush. Coming from an athletically inclined family, he has been surrounded by sports ever since he was 4 years old. But, while initially pouring all his time into Football (soccer), at 14, Tonoy discovered basketball through the countless highlights of Stephen Curry humiliating players from Curry Land. And just like that, a fiery passion for the game was ignited within Tonoy. And soon after, he decided to become a student of journalism, graduating in 2022, and choosing sports as his area of interest. Today, you can find him spending 99% of his time browsing through every type of content on every team in the NBA, before uncorking everything he has found to the world. In the 1% he isn't doing this, you can find him playing Basketball, Football, Volleyball, or practically any other sport he has had the opportunity to learn.

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