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

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Playoff teams like Memphis and Milwaukee were named. Toronto, Brooklyn, the bottom teams - all willing to facilitate and take on bad contracts to get the deal done.

Part of the issue is that Jimmy has a lot of leverage here. He has a Player Option on his final year, which means he can signal to teams to sign him with an extension or eat 52 mil next year and watch him walk. Miami is having trouble getting a deal done partly because everyone know this. Outside of being a Free Agent or having a No Trade Clause, this is one of the best spots to be in as a player.

Hence, why everyone is putting blame on the Heat for coming into the season with Jimmy not extended after Riley bad mouthed him last summer. Jimmy is a dikk but he's a known dikk. Why would you put him in a situation where you know he will act up?
The Clippers have proven that if your star player walks for nothing, your team doesn't automatically die; you just better have a plan in place. The threat of Jimmy walking away is not as bad as the threat of him opting in.


The last question has a very easy answer:

When Jimmy has been a dikk, nobody blamed Jimmy. People blamed the franchises he was on. Miami unlike the other teams he was on had a lot of built in goodwill for many many reasons.
 

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Assuming they woulda shopped him this summer, this was a cold market. There's some players we all thought were gonna get moved but didn't go anywhere because teams are worried about giving those players extensions. Other than maybe Golden State, I don't know the team that woulda been open to acquiring him in the summer that's now backing away. Going forward, unless you're just reckless or desperate, teams are gonna be a little more selective on who gets max extensions, let alone super max ones. Now a big chunk of the league is hard capped or up in aprons.
If it was simple and easy for us to figure out then there is no reason to pay FO people. Its apparent they either dont want him long term or dont want to pay him. Either way we all knew Jimmy would act an ass if he didnt get what he wanted. You may not get a HR or even a double but there had to be a move better than a year (or maybe 2 and you have zero control over whether its 2 if you keep him for another 10 days) of being on hold while Jimmy and Pat measure their dikks.
 

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If it was simple and easy for us to figure out then there is no reason to pay FO people. Its apparent they either dont want him long term or dont want to pay him. Either way we all knew Jimmy would act an ass if he didnt get what he wanted. You may not get a HR or even a double but there had to be a move better than a year (or maybe 2 and you have zero control over whether its 2 if you keep him for another 10 days) of being on hold while Jimmy and Pat measure their dikks.
Part of why Jimmy's still there is because everyone else knows that, and that's before you worry about how many regular season games he'll actually play, so they can deal him if they want, but at $48 mil a year and a new era where trading is a lot harder, we have this. Jimmy would be in Phoenix right now if there wasn't so much shyt holding up a transaction.
 

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Guy has perpetually burned bridges with every franchise he's taken a detour through. If every partnership ends with everyone calling you a dikkhead, you're probably a dikkhead.
 

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What are the rumored deals for both of these trades?

With the Warriors, Wiggins would have to be involved but he makes 26m annually that runs past the 25-26 season

Wiggins
Looney
Dennis

For Jimmy works.


Memphis is a lot easier.

Smart
Clarke (3 years like Wiggins
Kennard
Konshar


The question for Miami is do you want draft compensation for taking a 3 year deal. If so, would you rather have Wiggins at 26m per or a Clarke at 12m per plus a player like GG Jackson


Miami could also move either Wiggins or Clarke to a third team like Milwaukee or Toronto. It gets weird. Bucks still have to move Pat first
 
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