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I think if there’s any chance he can play, he plays. Really can’t be just giving away games like that if it can be avoided. Now if he really cannot play then they don’t have much choice. But I don’t see them resting his as a precautionary measure.
If he isn’t 100%, they can’t win anyway. No point in having him play in two games at 50-60% and they possibly lose both. Got 1 on the road, shore up to win the two home games and you go up 3-1. If you drop 1, it’s 2-2. What if hobbled Jimmy ends in them going 1-3, then it’s over.
When you roll an ankle you can play on adrenalin for a little bit, bit if it's a bad sprain, it's gonna swell tonight. You can't tell much right after an ankle sprain, it's the next day that you'll really know how bad it is.
i rolled on my ankle once and played for like an hour longer completely fine, and then was out for like three weeks in excruciating pain once the adrenaline wore off.
but i’m also a bum and this is jimmy butler, so.
you're sorry? You kill my brother, and you say you're sorry? Let me tell you something, the job offer, it didn't upset me, it amused me. Whoo, big job, at the illustrious HHM, a chance to play at the palace! A little ol' me? You have no idea whats going on. You're a teensy tiny man in a teensy weensy little bubble. Oh don't you fucking oh jimmy me. You look down on me you pity me? Walk away, that's right Howard you know why I didn't take the job? Cos it's too SMALL! I don't care about it. It's nothing to me. It's a bacterium! I travelled in worlds you can't even imagine. You can't conceive of what I'm capable of. I'm so far beyond you. I'm like a god in human clothing. Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips! - Jimmy "Slippin Jimmy" Butler
By the time we get to the Eastern Conference Finals, it is going to be a fully healthy Celtics team against five random fans from the crowd for the team that makes it out of this series.
Dudes just can't stay healthy. :(
They broke out in a "fuck Embiid" after the play where Siakam broke Embiid's face
[source](https://www.yahoo.com/video/nba-playoffs-joel-embiid-rips-raptors-fans-for-cheering-injury-145151686.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIr_HDYyyAHIzjT5blPoS8ouo0rWHddz3P4q7pODbAdfoa9qObzxA4p15EzYP2XKOSfIfHj9jX7bi22bDLPqD_tfh9BtgbYIX7gu9GZpi2hFLgSKM64IT6UO6SMX6puCzecsACB0XP5H370KhIOqWNCRFNy1BE73EW8jMGQeJLSB)
I'm an Eagles fan, and we cheered when Michael Irwin had a career-ending injury. And honestly, as much as it is fun to root against the Cowboys, that wasn't a classy move by us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31eX6Jayl1A
I actually hope he misses game 2 and can make a nesr full recovery instead of forcing it to be back on tuesday only to get it worsened and be out for the rest of the run. We got one W in enemy lines, let’s make sure Jimmy is back near100%.
But Jimmy will never accept sitting out unless he can’t play at all.
I like how in the nfl you get hurt an entire brigade of trainers runs to your side within seconds but in the nba if you get hurt on the court it’s “if he dies, he dies”
I love Josh Hart but he flopped there and ended up inadvertently tripping Butlers ankles.
Definitely not intentional but falling over like that is what caused this.
Both teams have been flopping/embellishing like crazy this game and this is the result. Shame on these teams and shame on the refs for allowing it by calling so many weak fouls
There needs to be punishment for foul baiting. Not calling it but having no repercussions makes it so you win if you get called and absolutely nothing if you don't get called (maybe a flopping reputation which might make it less likely you get calls in the future). But the cost benefit right now incentivizes flopping
Damn I don't remember the last time I've seen a flop actually injuring another player... it's usually just cringy but now it's just straight up dangerous
Somebody post the clip of RJ Barret getting a pick for a guy on one leg so it can get the attention it deserves as one of the dumbest moves in NBA history.
I'm not sure who to root for to get the easiest path. Jimmy Buckets scares me. I hope he's 100% for the next game.
Hasting the Celtics is in my DNA. Go Miami? That doesn't taste right either.
Man people don’t understand how muxh it hurst rolling an ankle you’ve rolled 10x times in your life. Every subsequent roll hurts worse and takes longer to heal and it’s just rough
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FUCK THESE INJURIES
I feel so bad for the players, imagine grinding the whole season and than this.
imagine load managing the entire season and then getting injured for the playoffs anyway...
I'm convinced at this point that load management is a myth
*then
Happens all the time.
Literally every year
Weirdly, the Celtics are the only team not injured
Wild Jinx
Don't worry, it doesn't work when it was your intention to jinx
My intention wasn’t to jinx.
Suuuure
CELTICS ARE NOT INJURED!! THEY ARE SO HEALTHY! HEALTHIEST TEAM OF THE EAST!
Super healthy. They're unstoppable. Never seen a less injury prone team.
Pls stop
They don't even have low Vitamin D levels!
the planets are aligning for this super healthy CELTICS are not injured, I repeat
https://media.tenor.com/b-291TsIh3EAAAAM/tim-robinson-i-think-you-should-leave.gif
I believe him
🧢‼️
You not slick buddy
I think it does this year though that's why so many injuries. They changed the jinx rules last year.
The Boston Media Mafia out there putting hexes on everyone but their own team!
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He's been upgraded to questionable for game 1!!
Ruled out from what I saw [CBS sports](https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/basketball/news/celtics-danilo-gallinari-wont-play-monday/)
GALLINAAARIIIIIIII
Sacrificial lamb
You mean world renowned defensive specialist Danilo gallinari?
OH CMON MAN
It has really hit me how important luck is in the playoffs. A lot of these injuries are just freak accidents as well…
Brother we do not speak words like this that will invite The Beast.
Most of the west is still healthy
Soon to be cursed comment
He'll play, he has the same stuff in him that Marcus Smart has.
Tussin?
Rub some Tussin on it! \-Chris Rock
somebody fucking turn off the injuries slider... no way.. wtf
He seemed aight afterwards at least. Little hobbled but i think he’ll be fine
He couldn’t do shit for the rest of the game, but by the end his hobble had gotten better.
Same as Randles injury. Thought he’d be fine since he fought through it and today he was out. Hoping it’s not serious for Jimmy.
Honestly, they might just punt on game two and give him maximum rest and treatment since game 3 isn’t until Saturday
If he is at all compromised that’s probably the smart decision.
Agreed, that's what I would consider doing as well.
confirmed sprained ankle
Fuck
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thats exactly the plan i imagine game 2 is hardly a must win but game 3 definitely is
I think if there’s any chance he can play, he plays. Really can’t be just giving away games like that if it can be avoided. Now if he really cannot play then they don’t have much choice. But I don’t see them resting his as a precautionary measure.
If he isn’t 100%, they can’t win anyway. No point in having him play in two games at 50-60% and they possibly lose both. Got 1 on the road, shore up to win the two home games and you go up 3-1. If you drop 1, it’s 2-2. What if hobbled Jimmy ends in them going 1-3, then it’s over.
Yup and 4 day gap between 2 and 3, rest him and take the L or see if anyone can step up then take it home
When you roll an ankle you can play on adrenalin for a little bit, bit if it's a bad sprain, it's gonna swell tonight. You can't tell much right after an ankle sprain, it's the next day that you'll really know how bad it is.
i rolled on my ankle once and played for like an hour longer completely fine, and then was out for like three weeks in excruciating pain once the adrenaline wore off. but i’m also a bum and this is jimmy butler, so.
If you keep injury sliders on during franshise mode, you suck
Not our precious Jimmy!
Stealing them blind!
And he gets to be all-NBA?
WHAT A SICK JUMPER!
I should have stopped him when I had the chance!
And Jrue... Jrue has to stop him...
Couldn't keep his balls out of the basketball hoop!
Couldn’t keep himself out of Rachel Nichols hotel room…
Bucks shoulda stopped him when they had the chance...
They never had a chance
And he gets to be a lawyer
What a sick joke!
Its like giving a monkey a machine gun!
Couldn't be precious Jimmy!
Precious was traded to the Raptors!
You think this ankle roll is bad? This Chicanery? HE ELIMINATED THE #1 SEED!
you're sorry? You kill my brother, and you say you're sorry? Let me tell you something, the job offer, it didn't upset me, it amused me. Whoo, big job, at the illustrious HHM, a chance to play at the palace! A little ol' me? You have no idea whats going on. You're a teensy tiny man in a teensy weensy little bubble. Oh don't you fucking oh jimmy me. You look down on me you pity me? Walk away, that's right Howard you know why I didn't take the job? Cos it's too SMALL! I don't care about it. It's nothing to me. It's a bacterium! I travelled in worlds you can't even imagine. You can't conceive of what I'm capable of. I'm so far beyond you. I'm like a god in human clothing. Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips! - Jimmy "Slippin Jimmy" Butler
One of the hardest scenes to watch. Great scene, amazing show.
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HE DEFECATED THROUGH A SUN ROOF!!
The chicanery
Lmao unexpected bcs
He defecated on Milwaukee!!
All jokes aside, he absolutely did. This fucking sucks.
By the time we get to the Eastern Conference Finals, it is going to be a fully healthy Celtics team against five random fans from the crowd for the team that makes it out of this series. Dudes just can't stay healthy. :(
Five random guys in six.
SONS IN FOUR
If Spoelstra's coaching, it's always possible.
I wanted a fully healthy non-hospital celtics in the playoffs but not like this
And he is still playing on one leg, distracting the Knicks as a spot up shooter in the corner, what a madman.
One leg Jimmy is still probably better on both sides of the ball than most of our bench
I would trade everyone on the Mavs besides kai and Luka for three one legged Jimmies
FUCK
I see the famous Spo quote has already made it to the history books
Me and you both Spo
Notice how the Knicks fans didn’t erupt in cheers when he was on the ground in pain
Real recognize real.
what cunts would do that?
Raptors to KD lol
Warriors fans booed Sabonis for laying down hurt the other day lmao
tbf, Warriors fans aren't particularly known for their well mannered conduct lol.
Warriors to Sabonis lol
Wasn’t that boos?
And Embiid
In that case they were cheering an and one
The announcers were the ones that fumbled that one saying he deserved it because he did the airplane lmao
They broke out in a "fuck Embiid" after the play where Siakam broke Embiid's face [source](https://www.yahoo.com/video/nba-playoffs-joel-embiid-rips-raptors-fans-for-cheering-injury-145151686.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIr_HDYyyAHIzjT5blPoS8ouo0rWHddz3P4q7pODbAdfoa9qObzxA4p15EzYP2XKOSfIfHj9jX7bi22bDLPqD_tfh9BtgbYIX7gu9GZpi2hFLgSKM64IT6UO6SMX6puCzecsACB0XP5H370KhIOqWNCRFNy1BE73EW8jMGQeJLSB)
It's well known that all Toronto fans are also doctors and knew that happened. How rude.
No way a Raptors fan mentioned the Raptors fanbase when the lob was for a dunk on the Warriors fanbase lmfao
Didn’t they cheer Embiid’s injury too?
I'm an Eagles fan, and we cheered when Michael Irwin had a career-ending injury. And honestly, as much as it is fun to root against the Cowboys, that wasn't a classy move by us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31eX6Jayl1A
Dude, they booed Dak winning MOTY at the Super Bowl. lol
I mean Dak is overrated and he did tell his fans to throw trash at the refs after a playoff loss
Lol
Cleveland when Randle got injured.
toronto
Ummm 76ers did it to us when Noah got hurt in 2012... They loved it
Cavs fans did this to Julius in game 5 too
Wolves fans did it game 1 when AD went down.
They aren't plastic fans
I was at the Cavs game 5 game and they did cheer like crazy when Randle went down
Classy/self-aware crowd, immediately recognize the series is less entertaining for them if Jimmy can’t play
I was at the game. Some fans nearby were booing him and telling him to get up.
I was there too and we were like "not like this, get up please".
Don't let it end like this
dude y'all can't catch a break
Every year lately. 2020 Finals we lose Bam and Dragic. Last year Herro.
Herro Dipo Jimmy Not like this man
He’ll be back. I do worry he’ll miss game two though
I actually hope he misses game 2 and can make a nesr full recovery instead of forcing it to be back on tuesday only to get it worsened and be out for the rest of the run. We got one W in enemy lines, let’s make sure Jimmy is back near100%. But Jimmy will never accept sitting out unless he can’t play at all.
Not what you want to see
Injuries fans feasting these playoffs
Easily goat playoffs for injuries.
Damn, Spoelstra knew. Man not like this.
PLEASE GOD, NOT JIMMY. ROLL MINE INSTEAD!!
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Hopefully it's not bad
If he kill’s himself it won’t be good
Big if true
Welcome to hell... fuck
I like how in the nfl you get hurt an entire brigade of trainers runs to your side within seconds but in the nba if you get hurt on the court it’s “if he dies, he dies”
I love Josh Hart but he flopped there and ended up inadvertently tripping Butlers ankles. Definitely not intentional but falling over like that is what caused this.
Both teams have been flopping/embellishing like crazy this game and this is the result. Shame on these teams and shame on the refs for allowing it by calling so many weak fouls
If the refs are going to make the calls, why wouldn’t the players take advantage? Of course they will.
We saw it in the Olympics where they were foul baiting and refs and opponents were like whatever.
God that was a mix of hilarious and embarrassing
There needs to be punishment for foul baiting. Not calling it but having no repercussions makes it so you win if you get called and absolutely nothing if you don't get called (maybe a flopping reputation which might make it less likely you get calls in the future). But the cost benefit right now incentivizes flopping
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That flop was mad reckless. Hart looks stupid af doing that, especially in slow motion lol
I mean wtf is Hart even doing there?
Flopping
Ngl Hart is a very hatable player when your team is going against him in a series. Tends to play a bit recklessly.
I used to play like Josh Hart
def sus, the way he extended his leg when faking contact
Yea normally those flops don’t have the player doing a slide tackle at the end of it.
Damn I don't remember the last time I've seen a flop actually injuring another player... it's usually just cringy but now it's just straight up dangerous
Look up Embiid and Danny green, just last year lol
The playoffs really do come down to a heavy dose of luck, poor Jimmy man
Said everyone.
Spo is me
This is why flopping is so dangerous, we should eliminate diving flops at all cost
Really hope he's ok, been an absolute animal so far in the playoffs
This is basically a slide tackle straight to the ankle… red card and 2 game suspension
Not like this
HE IS FINE HE IS FINE HE IS FINE
This is fucked up.
Slippin Jimmy strikes again
god damnit. why Jimmy man
The Injury Gods can kiss my lily white ass
Cue up the RDC skit
The moment spoelstra realized butler wasn’t getting back up and was slapping the floor in pain..
Somebody post the clip of RJ Barret getting a pick for a guy on one leg so it can get the attention it deserves as one of the dumbest moves in NBA history.
I'm not sure who to root for to get the easiest path. Jimmy Buckets scares me. I hope he's 100% for the next game. Hasting the Celtics is in my DNA. Go Miami? That doesn't taste right either.
You could almost hear all the gears in his head going through all the scenarios without JB then a pause then “F…k”
Fuck indeed.
That looked really bad. Injuries fucking suck, Jimmy has been absolutely insane this playoffs.
And thus, a gif was born
You can see Spo’s whole soul leaving his body at that point.
Josh hart oc with that flop smh
fucking Josh Hart's flopping ass caused Jimmy to turn his ankle what a fucking bozo
My heart stopped
Josh Hart should get a yellow minimum for that slide tackle. Reckless stuff
FUCK that looked bad
DAMMN YALL FAST
What else is he gonna say?
DAMMIT I HATE IT
Despair
Only pain
Fuck !
JIMMY NO
Well shit. How is he doing now? Man it's easy to root for the Heat to win given how Jimmy been playing.
Also every Heat fan in the world's reaction
Man people don’t understand how muxh it hurst rolling an ankle you’ve rolled 10x times in your life. Every subsequent roll hurts worse and takes longer to heal and it’s just rough
That's not just Spo but the collective miami heat fanbase.
Hart does play a little reckless at times, and unfortunately this reckless flop caused an injury this time
Typical Josh hart play
Fuck josh hart
These types of flops that endanger another player should warrant a suspension
Hart is a cunt. Got KD too. Reckless brainless dickhead.