Erik Spoelstra’s ‘winning’ admission about Heat Jimmy Butler trade package

Ever since the Miami Heat traded Jimmy Butler to the Golden State Warriors, there’s no doubt that the attention has been on his success with the team. With the Heat facing the Hawks in the play-in tournament on Friday, head coach Erik Spoelstra spoke about the players in the return package via the trade that are making a huge impact on the team.

The three players that Miami received were Andrew Wiggins, Kyle Anderson, and Davion Mitchell who came from the Toronto Raptors since the deal was a multi-team trade.While Wiggins’ availability has been limited, he’s produced as the third option besides Tyler Herro and Bam Adebayo while Mitchell along with Anderson are providing key minutes off the bench.

“They’ve fit in very well because they want to make it work,” Spoelstra said, according to The Miami Herald.. “They’re winning players, winning personalities. They each bring something a little bit different, which are things that we needed. Davion has that defensive presence and his toughness, and his passion. We love the passion that he brings to the game. Wiggs is just a very good basketball player.”

The things that he does lead to winning because he plays both sides of the floor. He takes pride in doing that and doing it at a high level. And then Kyle, it just takes a while to get accustomed to how he plays. But that game he had the other night [in Chicago] is kind of the epitome of what he does that just impacts winning, whether it’s stats or not.”

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