The NBA has tagged Heat forward Jimmy Butler with a $25K fine, the league announced today in a press release. According to the release, Butler has been penalized for violating the league’s rules related to media access and for not complying with a subsequent investigation.
The penalty stems from Butler’s unwillingness to comply with media availability obligations during All-Star Weekend in Cleveland, including not making himself available to reporters following Sunday’s game.
The Knicks were fined $25K by the NBA for a similar violation last month after not making Julius Randle available to the media for several games in a row.
Butler is earning $36MM this season, so the fine won’t put a significant dent into his next pay check.
Everything has a price.
Not going to happen, maybe like a 0.1% chance but what about this….
Tobias Harris, Mattise Thybulle and 2 first round picks for Jimmy Butler.
Jimmy and Joel are really good friends. And he’s come out and said he hopes James is happy playing with one of his best friends in Joel. Back when the Heat were interested in James Harden when he was on the Rockets he liked a post linking James to Miami and said I like James, he’s a good friend of mine and I just want him to be happy. So the three mates could make it happen if they wanted
As for the heat, maybe they want to go younger. Looking up and down their roster they have Butler Lowry Tucker Morris all older guys and then Herro, Bam, Garrett, Guy and Yurtseven all younger guys. Duncan is in the middle at 27 and Oladipo is coming back from injury on a 1 year deal at 29.
Harris would be a good fit at PF next to Bam but is 29. Thybulle would be great long term wise and then a couple first round picks.
Would be even more cheeky but Sixers could then pursue Markieff Morris (born and raised in Philly) in FA.
A starting 5 or Maxey Harden Butler Morris and Embiid would be so good to see. Even the depth wouldn’t be bad with Milton Green Korkmaz Niang and a open spot for a centre.
Make it happen Mr Morrey….
even with Ben gone does Jimmy want to come back?
With Ben and Brett Brown gone.
Teaming up with his mates Joel and James.
Also him and Doc Rivers being from Marquette.
Then we have Dave Joeger as an assistant coach. He was the HC while Boogie played his best basketball. Boogie is also mates with Jimmy. Would love to have him as our back up centre aswell.
You realize the trade deadline has come & gone, right?
Offseason
Your first 4 words summed it up
@Simmons>Russ
FYI – the Heat are in the business of trying to make themselves better and winning a championship; not making the 76ers better for winning a championship. I know that this may be a difficult concept to grasp considering that the Heat have 6 Finals and 3 championships in the last decade and a half while the 76ers haven’t won a championship since Dr. J was playing.
And another FYI – Jimmy didn’t like playing for the 76ers the first time, so why would he want to go back to the team he left to join the Heat? I guess some 76ers fans aren’t aware that Jimmy played for the 76ers in 2018-19 since their fandom started a couple of weeks ago when James Harden was traded over.
Why would one of the top teams trade their best player ?
Clearly because @Simmons>Russ thinks that the Heat are trying to help the 76ers win championship instead of trying to help themselves win a championship.
Sounds logical to me…in some anti-parallel universe somewhere.
For a Butler those arent very good manners!
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HOW DARE HE!
The guy played only 9 minutes…of course he didn’t want to talk to media, he was probably pissed off
That’s more than he usually plays, right?
I can’t remember exactly but he hasn’t played 2 or 3 of the times he has been selected… so playing 9 minutes is quite an improvement for him, right?
Those were probably because of injury (I don’t think there are DNP-CD in all-star haha). Idk that was just my possible explanation for why he would skip it. Maybe it’s just cause he’s Jimmy Butler and he does whatever he wants
Yeah, of course they were reported as injury, but still go from 0 to 9 is an improvement, right?
I was just trying to be funny, clearly it didn’t work, never mind, hopefully next time I will do better!
BTW I really do like Butler, great player & fun to watch, also he bucks the trend like DMDR in that are top players in the league without shooting 3’s which makes them instant heroes IMO!
#freebensimmons