Jimmy Butler has received his wish. He is being traded out of Miami.
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. A Miami era ends for the business butler who will be remembered first for two trips in the NBA final and then three suspensions towards the end of a hostile breakup.
Golden State Andrew Wigins, Dennis Shrodeer, Kyl and Draft is doing this from taking compensation to the deal, said, who spoke to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity as the business has not taken the league approval.
It was not immediately clear that the three players were ending in Miami.
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.
But with Warriors, he joins Stephen Curry and Drummond Green – two players who have been part of all four recent Golden State Title teams, they expected to return to the title controversy.
Butler’s breakup with heat was ground for months. The primary issue that caused the beginning of the end of their Miami term; He is eligible for two years, $ 113 million extension and Heat has never offered such a deal, as he has missed about 25% of the team’s game since coming in 2019.
There were other factors as well. Neither the side was especially happy with the other at the end, and it became clear that the fracture could not be repaired. It can be difficult to deal with Butler and heat “culture” is the best it works when everyone is aligned with team ideals. When he said that he was not expected to find the on-court Joy with heat again in early January, he was suspended for seven matches, as the team said harmful conduct.
It was the beginning of a wild end: Butler was suspended thrice alone in January, the second one ban of two games to remember the flight of the team, one of at least five matches for indefinite time, After learning him quickly after learning the shootround, after learning it, he was not leaving the shootround to start the January 27 game against Orlando.
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. ,
He never said that he wanted a business; At least, not openly, as it is not allowed by the League Rules and would have been subjected to a fine of up to $ 150,000. Heat said that Butler asked for one and when it was found that the team has changed the syllabus from the December fast of the team president Pat relay, he does not trade it; When the suspension was announced, the heat stated that they were trying to do a business.
But there were clear indications; For some sports, his hair color was just in the colors of Phoenix, Dallas, Golden State and Houston – four teams were most prominently mentioned as possible business partners for Miami. For at least one game, Butler also wore shoes that fully matched the color scheme of Sun.
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 in the first quarter with a disease, Butler received 9.5 points, 2.7 rebounds and 4.2 assistance.
The summer-batler marriage was not always bad, of course. Butler’s star of the team arrived to fill the location of Dwayne Wade as the franchise’s face. He even got the former locker space of Wade. 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.
Butler left Miami in third place on the team’s all-time playoff scoring list, only behind Wade and Lebron James.
The last time Butler was seen as a member of the heat, on 25 January in a Padel tournament, which essentially became his farewell for Miami.
“I love this city that I have,” he said that day.
Two days later, he was suspended by the heat for the third and last time. And now, his summer era is over.