{"id":439209,"date":"2025-04-24T08:18:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T06:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=439209"},"modified":"2025-04-24T08:18:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T06:18:40","slug":"jimmy-butler-exits-game-2-with-injury-mri-scheduled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jimmy-butler-exits-game-2-with-injury-mri-scheduled\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Butler exits Game 2 with injury, MRI scheduled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"857\" data-end=\"1047\"><strong data-start=\"857\" data-end=\"873\">Jimmy Butler<\/strong> left <strong data-start=\"879\" data-end=\"889\">Game 2<\/strong> against the Rockets after suffering a pelvis contusion in the first quarter. He landed hard after a collision with <strong data-start=\"1005\" data-end=\"1022\">Amen Thompson<\/strong> and was clearly in pain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1049\" data-end=\"1215\">He briefly stayed in the game before asking to be subbed out, and was ruled out by the <strong data-start=\"1136\" data-end=\"1154\">second quarter<\/strong>. The team announced Butler will have an <strong data-start=\"1195\" data-end=\"1214\">MRI on Thursday<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1217\" data-end=\"1370\">The series now heads to <strong data-start=\"1241\" data-end=\"1258\">San Francisco<\/strong> tied 1-1. Butler\u2019s status is critical for the Warriors, who were <strong data-start=\"1324\" data-end=\"1332\">25-8<\/strong> with him since his debut in February.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Amen Thompson clearly pushed Jimmy Butler.<\/p>\n<p>To all the Rockets fans claiming Draymond Green was pushing \u2014 that\u2019s just false. The replay shows Draymond intentionally holding back, making no effort to push Amen at all.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Amen Thompson deliberately extends both hands and\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lfBTMShKQ8\">pic.twitter.com\/lfBTMShKQ8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GSW Ball Report (@GSWBallReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GSWBallReport\/status\/1915239617927749898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;If Jimmy&#8217;s out, we have to rethink everything&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Steve Kerr on Golden State&#8217;s rotations if Butler is out for extended time <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nUIErH9std\">pic.twitter.com\/nUIErH9std<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA TV (@NBATV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBATV\/status\/1915268404753088865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Draymond green costing the warriors another championship run because he pushed a player into jimmy butler after already getting KD shipped out is hilarious <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zVz7so6Fdy\">pic.twitter.com\/zVz7so6Fdy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John (@iam_johnw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iam_johnw\/status\/1915234424183996572?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Butler left Game 2 against the Rockets after suffering a pelvis contusion in the first quarter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":439208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179,187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-439209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/GpRRAV0WgAA18IB.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439209"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=439209"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=439209"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=439209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}