Adebayo is already thinking about Jokic in the NBA Finals

Bam Adebayo, center Miami heat, held this Monday transition to NBA Finals dand his team is already thinking about a specific duel with the Serb Nikola Jokicleader Denver Nuggetsagainst whom, he believed, he would have to “limit his assists”.

“We have to make him take hard shots. The most important thing for us is to try to limit his assists. It’s easier said than done. But the most important thing is to study the video and understand how to do it,” Adebayo said after the 103-84 victory. Warmth in Game 7 of the East Finals against the Boston Celtics.

Jokictwice MVP from nba, he achieved 105 triple doubles in his career, and he achieved eight of them in these ‘playoffs’, leading the Nuggets over Minnesota Timberwolves, Phoenix Suns and Los Angeles Lakers.

The Nuggets They reach the finals after a 4-0 series against the Lakers and are fighting for the first ring in their history.

The Heat have lost three straight games against The Celtics and they needed a big win in TD Garden fly to the finals where he will fight for his fourth championship ring.

A team of Erik Spoelstra andHe has become accustomed to success when the predictions see him far from the favourites, and Adebayo found that to be the aspect he likes most about his franchise.

“When you live what we live this season, with ups and downs, people who say good and bad about us, who don’t take us into account, listening to all that noise and four wins away from the title means never to give up,” he thought. Adebayo.

For his part, Jimmy Butler, star Miami heat, he was chosen this Monday as the MVP of the finals NBA East, after a 103-84 win in Game 7 that closed the series 4-3 against Boston Celticsbut warned that his team had not done “anything yet” and that his goal was to win a ring in the Finals against the Denver Nuggets.

Butler, absolute leader Warmth, led the Heat to victory with 28 points, seven rebounds, six assists and three assists against approx Celticare to whom Jayson TatumHe was slowed by a sprained ankle suffered in the first game.

“I had confidence in myself, in this group of guys, in the coach. I see them every day, I know we’re good and we made it,” Butler said on the field for the TD. garden after receiving the MVP award.

The Warmth won in Boston after losing three consecutive games, the last of which with a basket from Derrick White with 0.1 second on the stopwatch. “We were united, we spoke as a team. We’re happy, but we have four more wins,” Butler said.