Jimmy Butler is having the time of his life. Butler and the eighth-seeded Miami Heat have now booked a birth in the much-awaited NBA Finals. Adding glitter to the already sublime post-season run, Jimmy Butler was named the Eastern Conference Finals MVP after the Game 7 victory over the Boston Celtics. Though Butler?s playoff run continues to be the talk of the town, he has now turned fans? heads for a different reason. The 6x All-Star’s hilarious F1 outing from a few years back resurfaced on the internet.
After seeing a different version of Jimmy Butler, fans are now going gaga over the Heat star?s racetrack adventure with 23-year-old McLaren star Lando Norris.
Lando Norris almost gave Jimmy Butler a heart-attack
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In a couple of days, the hoops world will witness the much-awaited Jimmy Butler-Nikola Jokic faceoff. However, now that Jimmy Butler’s sensational F1 antics have resurfaced on the internet, fans seem to have forgotten the upcoming superstar clash. Four years back, Jimmy Butler took to a racetrack and went for a Hot Laps spin with the F1 sensation Lando Norris. Then, Jimmy Butler got petrified while driving shot gun with the McLaren driver.
Jimmy Butler fastened his seatbelt and asked Lando Norris to not go that fast. Butler got so terrified that he started screaming and asked Lando Norris to slow down. “You are going so fast… My stomach gonna fall out of my a**,” Butler told Lando Norris. The 33-year-old added that he was fine when the car was going straight. It was the corners that scared him. When the car came to a stop, the Eastern Conference Finals MVP let out a sigh of relief and said, “Thank you. Guess I need to throw up. It’s coming.”
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Bleacher Report has now taken to Instagram with a snippet of the Heat star’s hilarious F1 outing. NBA fans are going crazy after seeing Jimmy Butler getting scared to death.
Fans go gaga over Jimmy Butler’s antic
Fans have become habitual of the unfazed Jimmy Butler who unleashes terror on the hardwood. However, now the fans are having a hearty laugh after seeing the terrified version of the 6x-NBA All-Star. “Dude can stay calm to hit three clutch free throws while millions watching but almost die when a car go fast,” said a fan.
Here are some of the responses from fans.
“Jimmy sounds like my mom when I got my learners permit.”
“If he was in an actual F1 car tho he woulda cried.”
“I think I’ve seen this video 59 times now”
“Naw this is comedy.”
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“Jimmy can’t handle the heat.”
“Yo that looks like a lot of fun but was probably scary. Those cars hit 200 easy.”
“Oh you driving driving lmao.”
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