The Golden State Warriors lost Jimmy Butler to a painful injury in the first quarter of their Game 2 loss to the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night, and his status for the rest of the series will be better known after his MRI on Thursday.
Butler was injured when Houston's Amen Thompson fell into him while Butler was going up for a rebound. At first, it looked like Draymond Green might have pushed Thompson into Butler, but the more you look at the replays, the more it looks like Thompson just fell into Butler.
Whether or not it was a dirty play is up for debate. Shortly after the injury occurred, a video showing some dirty moments from Thompson in his young NBA career started going viral. There was one play where he grabbed Giannis Antetokounmpo by the face on a hard foul. There's one where he threw the Heat's Tyler Herro to the ground during a scuffle. And there was one that saw him getting ejected for hitting Maxi Kleber with a hard elbow.
Amen Thompson in his short 2 year career already putting together a dirty-play reel that rivals Draymond’s pic.twitter.com/kcaonEVKBz
— Ramon ⚔️⚡️ (@RamonIsHim) April 24, 2025
Thompson was called for a regular foul on Butler and stayed in the game.
Jimmy Butler hit the ground hard after being undercut by Amen Thompson 😳 pic.twitter.com/Icd2wBF50U
— Warriors on NBCS (@NBCSWarriors) April 24, 2025
Game 3 of this series is Saturday night in San Francisco. We'll have to wait and see if Butler will be available for that one.
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