Game 4 of 2023 NBA Finals Will Tip Off at 2:30 a.m. CAT on ESPN, Canal+ and NBA League Pass

Denver Nuggets lead the series 2-1.

ERIK SPOELSTRA (Miami Heat Head Coach): “That's what we all want. This is the stage that you want to be able to compete and have everything decided between those four lines and find out how your team stacks up. But it is tough. It's tough going through the gauntlet of three rounds to get to this level. Then when you get to this level, it should be what it is. It's the highest level of competition. Our guys thrive in that. They love it. Even after games like last night, our guys love to compete and put it all out there.”

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JIMMY BUTLER (https://apo-opa.info/3NvN8Rr) (Miami Heat) on Lionel Messi: “Obviously, he is one of the greatest players to play that beautiful game. I'm so excited for the city of Miami, to be able to have a player of that caliber here. I'm excited for the city of Miami in so many different ways. Obviously us being in the Finals and having an opportunity to do something special. Now that he is here, I think all the football/soccer fans from all over the world are going to come here and get an opportunity to watch him compete. I'm glad he is here.”

JIMMY BUTLER (Miami Heat): “I wouldn't change anything. Not one thing. I continue to be who I am. We will continue to be who we are as a group, as a team. We're going to go out here and compete together. We're going to win together. We're going to be who we are. I wouldn't change a thing, though.”

BAM ADEBAYO (https://apo-opa.info/3NlQlmf) (Miami Heat): “We've been through so much this season, ups, downs, goods, bads. A lot of you in here probably never thought we would be in this position right now.”

GABE VINCENT (Miami Heat): “We're not going to get too high or too low. Things are going to be difficult. We just got to continue to stay the course.”

MICHAEL MALONE (https://apo-opa.info/3WX5vBw) (Denver Nuggets Head Coach): “We have a great offense, period. But when Nikola is making threes, that puts so much more pressure on the opposing defense. I think he has one of the best shot fakes in the NBA.”

NIKOLA JOKIC (https://apo-opa.info/45Yqnga) (Denver Nuggets): “I think it's cool just to see different solutions, how different players think different and how some players are reacting a certain way, how certain players don't react. Especially now, like you remember, so they blitz us a couple times, they steal the ball, then we reacted good. It's just kind of bringing a game, like a chess game. They are one move, we are another move. I think this is the time where the players show what they've got.”

JAMAL MURRAY (https://apo-opa.info/3MTos3A) (Denver Nuggets) on Nikola Jokic: “He is strong. He is strong. He is seven-foot. He's got amazing touch, IQ, passing. He does a great job of just picking his spots, when to go right away, when to wait for the double, when to put the ball on the floor, when to spin. Yeah, he is a tough cover down there. He is up there with the greats.”

AARON GORDON (https://apo-opa.info/3J4KDm9) (Denver Nuggets) on defending Jimmy Butler: “To stay down on pump fakes, so I don't go to shot fakes. Do your best to stay out of foul trouble. Make things difficult for him. To be physical with him. But mostly just stay down on pump fakes and stay out of foul trouble.”

June 09, 2023