The 33-year-old superstar had the coldest reaction with teammate Bam Adebayo after the Heat won the Eastern Conference championship.
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Miami blew out the Boston Celtics in Game 7 103-84 to advance to the finals, and cameras caught Butler rejecting the ECF trophy.
Bam tried to hand it to him, and the 12-year veteran had an epic response.
“I’ll hold the next one.”
Butler clearly has his eyes set on winning an NBA championship and holding up the Larry O’Brien trophy.
He averaged 24.7 points per game during the series against Boston and was named Eastern Conference Finals MVP.
The Heat entered the playoffs as an 8th seed and qualified for the play-in games; after losing the first game, they took out the Chicago Bulls to play the Milwaukee Bucks in the first round.
Butler steamed through the Bucks, putting up 37.6 points per game and beating them in five games.
Then the New York Knicks in six games.
Miami is the second No. 8 seed ever to reach the NBA Finals.
The Heat are back in the finals for the second time in four seasons.
Butler was a part of the Heat when the Los Angeles Lakers defeated them in the “NBA Bubble” in 2020.
Four wins away from an NBA title, and the Heat will have to face two-time league MVP Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets.
Denver has looked dominant throughout the postseason after sweeping the Lakers in the Western Conference finals.