28/10/2023 14:10hs.
Jimmy Butler is one of the NBA superstars most loved by Argentines. His friendliness, his play and, of course, his appreciation for the country, which he met in February of this year, generated the affection that the Albiceleste public has for him. And recently, he and the Miami Heat, his team, were seen shouting “Argentina” as a harangue before a game. But how did the love for the blue and white flag get there?
Well, it must be said that Butler strengthened that bond when he made a family’s trip from Chubut the best vacation in the world. The story took place in January of this year and has as protagonists Zoe and Felipe, two brothers who traveled with their family to the United States. and they attended an NBA game. One from the Heat specifically, because Feli, the youngest, is a Butler fan…
Zoe and Felipe went to the Kaseya Center on January 24 to watch the matchup between the Heat and the Celtics. And Felipe did not waste the opportunity to carry a sign dedicated to Butler, in which he wrote if he could take a photo with the player. However, minutes later, It was confirmed that the Miami superstar was not going to play the game and that he had not arrived at the stadium…
The moment in which Zoe gave that news to Felipe, who reacted with visible disappointment, was recorded by one of the TNT cameras and went viral. So much so that, at the end of the first half of the game, It had already reached the Heat staff and even Butler himself, who sent several gifts to the brothers and even managed to get them to take them to fourth-row seats so they could finish watching the game from there.
But that is not all. After the match, which ended in a 98-95 victory for the Heat, Butler’s representative approached the brothers and told them that he had asked to meet them. The next day, A car picked up Zoe, Felipe and their family to take them to the stadium again and there, finally, they met Butler…
And it doesn’t end there. Butler even asked them to stay and watch his next game, which was two days later, and even arranged their tickets so they could stay in Miami. Besides, He also gave them signed sneakers, t-shirts and even took the whole family to dinner with him. As a matter of fact, he even bought Felipe a skateboard.
As if that were not enough, Butler gave them front row seats and took them to the locker room on the day of the game, where there, Felipe took advantage and asked if they could shout for Argentina during the harangue. “He thanked us for everything (I didn’t know how to explain to him that we were the ones who were grateful) and we left the stadium because in a few hours we were going back to Argentina,” Zoe said on her Twitter account.
“It was the best experience of our lives and I am not going to get tired of thanking everyone who had something to do with it. The Heat behaved extremely well, the coach, the players. And to Jimmy more than anything, it was obvious that it came from within him,” Zoe closed. From a movie…
Video: the Heat and the harangue for Argentina
2023-10-28 14:10:32
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