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FINAL UPDATE: Jimmy Butler's Injury Status In Bucks-Heat Game

Jimmy Butler went to the locker room during Game 3.

Ben Stinar

FINAL UPDATE: Jimmy Butler's Injury Status In Bucks-Heat Game
FINAL UPDATE: Jimmy Butler's Injury Status In Bucks-Heat Game /

UPDATE: The Heat have adjusted Jimmy Butler's injury diagnosis.  

Via the Heat: "UPDATE: Jimmy Butler’s injury is a bruised glute."  

UPDATE: Jimmy Butler will return. 

Via The Heat: "#MILvsMIA INJURY UPDATE: Jimmy Butler (bruised lower back) will return to tonight’s game."  

On Saturday evening, the Miami Heat are hosting the Milwaukee Bucks for Game 3 of their first-round playoff series.   

During the game, their best player (Jimmy Butler) went to the locker room with an injury.   

Via Bally Sports Sun: HEAT: "Jimmy Butler is headed to the Heat locker room after this hard fall. 

He has 30 points and counting...

@MiamiHEAT| #HEATCulture"

Butler has played 28 minutes and already has 30 points, five rebounds, four assists and two steals while shooting 12/19 from the field. 

The six-time NBA All-Star is coming off another fantastic season where he averaged 22.9 points, 5.9 rebounds, 5.3 assists and 1.8 steals per contest in 64 games. 

He also shot 53.9% from the field and 35.0% from the three-point range. 

The 33-year-old has led the Heat to the NBA Playoffs in all four seasons that he has been with the franchise, and they are coming off a year where they lost in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals. 

Currently, they are tied 1-1 with the Bucks after the two teams split Games 1 and 2 in Wisconsin. 

The Heat are in a good position to take control of the series with Games 3 and 4 on their home floor (they have gone 27-14 in 41 games at home).

Whoever wins the series will advance to the second round and face off with either the New York Knicks or Cleveland Cavaliers. 

More on the Miami Heat can be read here 

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Ben Stinar is the NBA reporter for Fastbreak on FanNation.

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