Show poise and resilience even when you don't think there is a way out.

Show poise and resilience when you don't think there is a way out.

Jimmy Butler III is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association. He is known as "Jimmy Buckets" and "Playoff Jimmy" for his explosion in the NBA postseason, but quiet playing style in the regular season...

He is a six time NBA All star, a five time All-NBA team honoree, a five-time NBA All-Defensive Second Team candidate, a gold medalist for the 2016 US Olympic Team and a hall of fame trolling comedian on media day with his braggadocious hairstyles...

Butler played one year of college basketball for Tyler Junior College before transferring to Marquette University. He was selected by the Chicago Bulls in the last pick of the 2011 NBA draft, the same draft class that Klay Thompson and Kawhi Leonard was selected in...

He played six seasons in Chicago, played in Minnesota Timberwolves for a short brief time before making his way to the Philadephia 76ers and finally the Miami Heat. 

During the first season with the Miami Heat, Butler reached the NBA finals. In 2021, he led the league in steals. In 2023, he led the eighth-seeded Heat to their second NBA Finals in four years. 

He was often potrayed by the media as a "LOCKERROOM CANCER" before his successful stint that he is currently showing the entire room in Miami Heat. This was because he had a lot of issues with the way his coaches and teammates approached the game in a lazy and careless manner. He wanted to be part of a culture that valued hard work and grit and hustle and toughness, which was the very characteristics that attracted his talents to come to play for South Beach in Miami, Florida. 

His early life is riddled with brokeness as both his parents abandoned him and his Mom directly shouted at his face that "I don't like the way you look! You gotta go". Born near Houston, Texas, he had to find foster homes and bounce between different cribs that his high school and college teammates were staying in. He eventually found a supportive texan household that brought him in as one of his own. 

He ended playing for Tyler Junior college a tertiary institution that aliens had never heard of before... 

Eventually his hard work and determination to be great allowed him to play for a decent school in Marquette, which attracted a larger market for scouting and his talents were noticed to be NBA ready and NBA level. 

Fast forward after many years of working his way from rock bottom to the top of the top, Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat lost a crucial game 6 in the Eastern Conference Finals in 2023 to the Boston Celtics. This was the very same team that they lost to in the previous 2022 ECF in game 7. Mind you, Jimmy publicly declared that "we have enough, and we will be the same position next year and we will get it done." 

This level of prophecy and confidence is hard to match and believe in, but Jimmy knew the exact big picture goal that he and his teammates and the entire coaching staff and organisation had going into that tough summer, which was to beat the Boston Celtics in a 7 game series next year if they ever had a rematch. 

After a tough loss in game 6 with a score of 104-103, a reporter asked Jimmy how he would motivate the team to win a game 7 after losing a commanding 3-0 series lead and now being in the position of elimation and embarrasment in the sense that Boston could come backt to win 4 straight games to proceed to the NBA Finals. 

The whole press conference to me is a masterpiece in displaying leadership traits of togetherness, resilience and poise, but my favourite section in this whole video would have to be when he said these very words"

A reporter asked him, "Jimmy to follow up on the previous question that has to be one of the craziest endings to a game in sports history, how do you get your guys over the emotional hurdle of losing in the final second?"

Jimmy replied, "I mean I'll tell them nothing you can do about it now, all you can do is MOVE FORWARD, but I'm proud of the way our guys played tonight to never give up,  fight to the very end and giving us a chance to win this basketball game. It didn't go our way, part of it, it hasn't been going our way this whole year... So this is nothing new, we just need to go on the road and do something special, but we got a special group so why not it be us?"

Eventually, Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat beat the Boston Celtics in a game 7 against the Boston Celtics with a commanding victory of 103-84. The reason being is that Jimmy said "If I play better, we are not even in this position honestly speaking, and I will be better that's what makes me smile. I don't give a damn what anyone saying, we are going to go in there and WE WILL WIN!!!". This is the mindset of a champion and breadborn winner that puts the needs of the team before his own selfish desires. He knows what to call his peers. In the subsequent game 7 ECF press confernece, Jimmy classifed his group as "I don't call them role players, I call them my teammates!". He also praised and thanked the entire front office, general management and basketball operations and most importantly the coaching staff for believing in his leadership style and entrusting that he could bring the team to the promised land...

A player that rightfully deserves a huge salary and all the women indeed...