Heat’s unprecedented playoff run as No. 8 seed moves into NBA Finals: ‘Nobody is satisfied’

Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler predicted this a year before it happened. “Next year, we will have enough and we’re going to be right back in this same situation and we’re going to get it done,” Butler said on May 29, 2022, after a hard-fought Game 7 loss to the Boston Celtics in last season’s Eastern Conference finals. Butler’s words proved to be prophetic. Exactly a year from that day, the Heat earned a dominant 103-84 win against the Boston Celtics in Game 7 of this season’s East finals on...