If the Miami Heat make the 2023 NBA Finals - Jimmy Butler is guaranteed to be a Hall of Famer
its crazy, because he isnt a 30 ppg game during the regular season, but he turns it on in the playoffs and takes it to a different level
murksiderock
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I'm gonna disagree with everyone saying he was a Famer before this season. I think it was likely but he wouldn't have been 1st or 2nd ballot...
This postseason is locking him in as first ballot without a doubt...
As far as his All-Time standing. He didn't register on 99% of heads Top 75 before this season. He's on there now, so his historical place is rising. How high is up to him and how he is able to steer the remainder of his career. He isn't rising to no damn Top 20 in one season after not even being in Top 75 conversation beforehand
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But he's getting in somewhere in that bottom 20 off this season. The bottom 20 of the Top 75 generally consists of some order of the following:
Unseld, McGrady, McAdoo, Melo, Vince
Rodman, Chief, Cowens, English, Dame
Maravich, Dwight, Schayes, Pearl, Arizin
Tiny, Pau, Parker, Greer, King
So its more about where is he gonna fit within this group. He's in there...
The other two guys who have gone from not in the conversation the last two years (because of their youth, though), to firmly within it now, are Embiid and Jokic. And Jimmy hasn't risen quicker or higher than Jokic. Embiid is more debatable, but those two guys have also put themselves on the All-Time boards...
This postseason is locking him in as first ballot without a doubt...
As far as his All-Time standing. He didn't register on 99% of heads Top 75 before this season. He's on there now, so his historical place is rising. How high is up to him and how he is able to steer the remainder of his career. He isn't rising to no damn Top 20 in one season after not even being in Top 75 conversation beforehand
...But he's getting in somewhere in that bottom 20 off this season. The bottom 20 of the Top 75 generally consists of some order of the following:
Unseld, McGrady, McAdoo, Melo, Vince
Rodman, Chief, Cowens, English, Dame
Maravich, Dwight, Schayes, Pearl, Arizin
Tiny, Pau, Parker, Greer, King
So its more about where is he gonna fit within this group. He's in there...
The other two guys who have gone from not in the conversation the last two years (because of their youth, though), to firmly within it now, are Embiid and Jokic. And Jimmy hasn't risen quicker or higher than Jokic. Embiid is more debatable, but those two guys have also put themselves on the All-Time boards...
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He needs to seal the damn deal.
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5x all nba makes you a shoe-in unless you're a heinous human being
he could very well get 2 more.
No one has also carried a team of undrafted castaways to an NBA title, themselves as an unheralded second round pick. If Jimmy somehow defies the Basketball Gods on some Clash Of The Titans shyt and makes it happen then heās a special case and therefore deserves special consideration.
I donāt think people truly understand how astronomically outstanding such a feat would be. This man would have led his team not only past the first, second, and 4th best teams in his conference, but also would have to beat either a team led by the greatest player of his generation or a team led by a European whose currently playing like every white person in the world is extending theyāre hands to the heavens and lending him their energy to create a basketball spirit bomb. It would literally be an UNHEARD of accomplishment.
When you do the impossible there is no such thing as a āreachā. Your just a legend. Simple as that
And only the last two years too, until 2022 he had never averaged more than 22.9ppg in a postseason. Even in that 2020 run, he damn near disappeared as a scoring option for stretches (19.0ppg in the ECF, fourth on the team).
In part it's gotta be a reflection of how fukking hard he works and manages to keep improving his game.
I wish Tracy McGrady could've done what Jimmy is doing right now 
OnFleekTing
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Jimmy Butler is like the nba version of the new York giants playoff hype but they actually win
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Top 20 is more or less considered some version of this:
Mike, LeBron, Kareem, Magic, Wilt
Bird, Kobe, Russell, Duncan, Shaq
O, KD, Dream, Logo, Moses
Mailman, Steph, Erving, Baylor, KG
So he's going from being on virtually no one's Top 75 board to being better than Malone II, Steph, Dr J, Baylor and Garnett, while also knocking down someone else above that level?
Looking at some of the names who have gotten in recently, heās gonna waltz his way into the HOF. A ring would just be the cherry on top.