Jimmy Butler found what he wanted. He is being excluded from Miami and a new contract has been found in this process.
Heat and the Golden State Warriors have agreed to a deal that sends Butler to the Bay area, a person with knowledge of the talks said on Wednesday. Butler helped to move the heat in the NBA final twice, long before a hostile breakup that suspended him three times by the team in January.
Golden State Andrew Wigins, Dennis Shrode, Kyle Anderson and the first round draft compensation is taking the deal, said, the person who said, who spoke to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the business made the league Has not taken approval.
Vignins and Anderson are going towards Miami; It is not clear whether Anderson will live with heat or not. Shrodeer is being transferred to Utah – where Warriors, coincidentally, were on Wednesday night – and Josh Richardson is leaving for Detroit from Miami. Also on this step: PJ Tucker, who was currently trading in Utah and is now ready to return to Miami, where he played in 2021-22.
“My brother, man.” I am going to remember him, of course, “Heat Forward Nicola Juvic said, who saw Butler. “I think there will be many people here. He is someone who did a lot for this franchise. ,
Summer will get a protected first-rounder from Golden State; For now, this is a pick in this year’s draft, although it can change based on final terms. And ESPN reported that Butler has already agreed to two years of expansion with warriors, the price will be around $ 113 million.
“I am really happy that he found what he wanted,” Jeevic said. “A little of that bag is really big.”
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The Golden State Butler becomes the fifth team after the stent in Chicago, Minnesota, Philadelphia and Miami. His arrival in all four cities was celebrated, and his departure was not at all smooth in any of them.
With Warriors, he connects to Stephen Curry and Drummond Green – two players who were part of all four recent Golden State Championship teams and are expected to return to the title dispute again.
Warriors held a closed door meeting in the locker room on Wednesday as the news of the business was coming out; Coach Steve Cair met with the team during the period that the room was usually open to reporters before the Games.
Butler’s breakup with heat was ground for months. The primary issue was money; He was eligible for two years, $ 113 million extension and heat never offered it, on a large scale because he missed about 25% of the team’s game in his Miami tenure.
The relationship was finally broken beyond repair. When Butler said that he was not expected to find on-court joy with heat again in early January, he was suspended for seven matches, as the team said harmful conduct.
It was getting worse: Butler was suspended thrice in January, the second two-game ban to remember the second team flight, the last one indefinite who then after leaving the shootround after learn quickly after learning on January 1 Was not going to start. 27 games against Orlando. That was the end.
Butler said after his first game after the first suspension, “By me, leaving me, a lot was told to tell you the truth.” “We will keep talking to people. … The whole truth will be revealed. ,
The Heat said that Butler asked for a business, due to which he did not have to trade the team president Pat Riley with the December swear of December; When the first suspension was announced, the heat stated that they were trying to do a business.
Butler has an average of 17 points per game this season. He was one of the best statistical sports in heat history against Detroit on 16 December – 35 points, 19 rebounds and 10 assist.
It was never again. In six of his performances after that Detroit game, in which he left with illness in the first quarter, Butler received 9.5 points, 2.7 rebounds and 4.2 assistance.
In the 2014 draft, the number 1 pick Vignins scored 18.5 in 11 seasons – first with Minnesota, then Golden State. He is a person whom Kerr has seen many times in this season, and when the vigins were good, the warriors were usually really good. The Golden State was 8-3 in this season when Vignins scored at least 23 points.
“Wigs is actually a good place,” Kerr said in November.
Butler joined Miami in 2019, who to fill the location of Dwayne Wade as the star of the team, The Face of the franchise. He was an all-star in Miami twice, in 2020 in the NBA final in the bubbles, he assisted in the summer and then in 2023 as the number 8 seed and some epic postsen turned into postsen performances. Heat playoffs are 18 40-point games in history; Butler is responsible for eight of them, including a team-record 56 against Milvauki in 2023.
The last time Butler spoke publicly as a heat player, in a paddle tournament on 25 January. “I love this city, which I have,” he said that day.
Two days later, he was suspended by the heat for the third and last time.