BOSTON -- JIMMY BUTLER had the ball and surveyed the scene.
It was early in the fourth quarter of Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals, and the Miami Heat had absorbed everything the Boston Celtics -- and the raucous crowd inside TD Garden -- had thrown at them. Miami's playoff hero was going in for the knockout blow.
Butler got the matchup he had spent all series hunting -- a switch with Celtics big man Robert Williams III getting matched onto him -- and he rose up for a step-back midrange jumper.