BREAKING NEWS: All Star forward Jimmy Butler walks out of practice after being informed he would be benched, Suspended indefinitely by the Miami Heat

[Standing on business]

I feel like if this didn’t involve Pat Riley no one would really be on Jimmys side with this. Dude has issues with every team, and it’s not like he’s getting unfairly compensated. His only saving grace is that Pat Riley is even more hated.

 

[LV Koopa]

That's only if you have to believe that basketball isn't a team sport.

As the usual ESPN-hot take generation love to do, they even do it with football with their 50 man squads and 15 man coaching staff.


One can be a much needed, invaluable piece without carrying something. Like if you remove a screw from a car it might break down, but does that always mean that the screw is worth half the team?

Jimmy is the only 19-6-6-ppg player with stans saying "he carried the team".


Like the bar used to be cats like MJ, Magic to Kobe, Duncan to Lebron, Steph to Giannis, Jokic etc. that is carrying. You dudes are merely saying that the most important player is carrying. Even worse is that you are saying this about a team with 2 all-star players with similar accolades despite one being a nearly a decade younger

Did you actually watch the playoffs? Be honest

 

[HiphopRelated]

The problem is also that he can't threaten to have Miami walk away with nothing because there aren't teams with the kind of cap space that will be ready to spend it on him, so the trade is his only way towards his goal.

There's a reason he ain't getting a max extension from us

 

[Harry B]

Did you actually watch the playoffs? Be honest

If asterisk playoffs -- yes, what else was there to do.
If the one where didn't break 100 points a single game -- yes, but I might've missed game 4 since it was more one sided than team usa in the group stage of the Olympics.

I rarely discuss basketball players, just teams, cause stans are too damn annoying in this sport. Like I imagine that it is discussing Nicki vs Cardi with Nicki Minaj stans or something


But on rare occasions I get dragged into it, and now I'll bow out and take the L

 

[Mirin4rmfar]

Trade this fakkit to the fakkit ass Knicks or Warriors for all I care.

 

[iamduval]

Can’t wait to see Jimmy carry his next team to the finals the same way he did in Chicago, Philly, and Minnesota

 

[Hersh]

Source: Five NBA players most likely to be traded -- and the latest on a new $5B league

The Suns traded their 2031 second-round draft pick to the Hornets as part of this week's Richards trade. Let's pause for just a moment to note that since Mat Ishbia acquired controlling ownership in the Suns on trade deadline day in 2023, and then immediately acquired Durant, he now has overseen the trade of eight consecutive years of the Suns' second-round picks (2023 to 2031).

Since Ishbia arrived, the Suns have also traded four first-round picks and five first-round pick swaps. If that math doesn't look quite correct, note the Suns found a way to trade two swaps on their 2026 first-rounder. (It might be the most complicated pick machination in NBA history, with five teams involved, so just trust us.)

Phoenix has also discussed using the one first-round pick it is still allowed to trade (2031) in various talks around trying to acquire Butler, multiple league sources told ESPN.

One executive joked about implementing a new rule similar to one on the books about dealing first-round picks.

Named after former Cavaliers owner Ted Stepien, the rule forbids teams from trading firsts in back-to-back years, though plenty of loopholes remain. Stepien famously traded four consecutive years of first-round picks as part of three transactions to the Dallas Mavericks in the mid-1980s.

 

[Hersh]

Raptors Insider: Toronto is trying to get in on the Jimmy Butler trade sweepstakes

While they don’t want to add the aging superstar, the Raptors have the range of expiring contracts that could allow them to get assets by being a third or fourth participant in a trade.

www.thestar.com

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Jimmy Butler has been dissatisfied on every team he's be on in the NBA.

At this point it's fair to call him a clubhouse cancer, no matter how well he plays sometimes.

Dude annoys the hell outta me

He's not even nice like that to me

Get this stiff ass glorified role playing nikka up outta here

 

[FAH1223]

 

[pimpineasy]

Can’t wait to see Jimmy carry his next team to the finals the same way he did in Chicago, Philly, and Minnesota

That first year Jimmy bump
That second year we ready now but there is tension since I want to win but these guys not serious run
That third year I'm drink yourrrrrrrrrr milkshake I drink it up to the franchise

 

[Rekkapryde]

There's a reason he ain't getting a max extension from us

Well shyt.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Jimmy coming back to cause chaos is some cap and projection like shyt. More like they WANT Jimmy to act the fool to give them shyt to write/talk about.

If you trying to get traded and act the gotdamn fool, who's gonna not only trade for you but give you the extension you want? Especially when you now have an established pattern of ruining your welcome at the end. I refuse to believe Jimmy is that retarded.

 

[CHICAGO]

There's a reason he ain't getting a max extension from us

AINT fukkING BODY SIGNING THERE
WITHOUT WADE HAND DELIVERING THEM

WE REMEMBER THOSE
JAMES JOHNSON, DION WAITERS,
TYLER JOHNSON CONTRACTS


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[Joe Sixpack]

Pat Riley knew he fukked up with LeBron so he let this clown Jimmy Butler do the things he never let Bron do

The only problem is Jimmy Butler is closer to a poor man's Derrick McKey let alone Bron

Smh at "Superstar"

Damn Riles