Leroy's eyebrows rose as Shams Charania came in ringing on Christmas Day with more Jimmy Butler news claiming he prefers trade out of Miami before the NBA trade deadline.
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00:00and sources say that Jimmy Butler prefers a trade before the February 6th deadline.
00:06Jimmy Butler is questionable tonight as the heater in Orlando to take on the magic.
00:11Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. I got this. I got this.
00:20We are familiar with the NFL. I mean, the NBA inner workings.
00:25Right. And I'm gonna throw this out there. I have no idea if it's true. All I have is what
00:34transpired in the past with every team. Now, let me put this out there. Y'all tell me if I'm off
00:43base because I'm not a conspiracy guy. You know, I get on Tobin about this, but it must be said.
00:51It must be said. Now, Jimmy Butler hasn't played in a couple of games. Friday, he got sick.
00:58He was sick, apparently, after spraining his ankle.
01:04He hurt his ankle so bad he had the bubble guts. Help me. Help me with it. All right.
01:10Whatever. Now, when a star player over the last 15 years of the NBA
01:22has not played and mysteriously is out for a number of games for whatever reason,
01:31what does that usually mean? I'm curious about that.
01:34OK. OK. I'm just saying I don't want to be the only one to feel that way. But the circumstances
01:42in which Jimmy Butler has not played. Right. Seem kind of eyebrow raising.
01:52Right. Am I the only one? You definitely are. Eyebrow raising is Dan and I talked about this
02:00prior. It's Jimmy's agent. What what's going on here? I know what's going on. I know what's
02:08going on, but what you make in the public seem like it's like all the shots is not coming out
02:12here, especially getting the ESPN reputation on the line and going like that. Now they just got
02:20the job, especially especially when you're replacing the you're the guy who taught you
02:25and the guy that you were competing against. You're not going to go in first first story
02:30and just throwing, you know, throwing something on the wall, even stick wild guess. You're not
02:36doing that. You're getting information and you know what's going on. And you think it's
02:40coming from Jimmy's agent. Right. From someone in Jimmy's camp. Yeah. OK. But but here but here.
02:47But here's here's my other thing. Here's my other thing, like. OK, like we we we see the
02:58stuff out there and everybody's going to ask Jimmy and Jimmy's not going to talk because he's not
03:03playing, so he don't have to talk. Right. Everybody go as well. Everybody go ask the heat
03:10and then is mysteriously going to happen. Now, if there is a. Message out there that says
03:19he prefers to get traded. During. The before, well, before the trade deadline.
03:31One of the reasons why they put that out there. Is so neither side is pressured
03:39into making a sudden and then you end up with a garbage trade. You see what I mean?
03:47But that brings me to this point.
03:52Are there more teams out there that feel the way Portland did?
03:58Because wouldn't that make it more difficult for anybody to do a trade with?
04:03They're intimidated by Pat Riley. Not even intimidated. Just like it almost means
04:08Portland went out of their way not to do business.
04:14With the heat. So if there's more teams like that.
04:21Then where does that leave the heat? And is that why maybe his agent put that out there early
04:28to get things rolling instead of waiting till the last two or three days before the trade deadline?
04:34Maybe there could be a deal that they're working on right now. Maybe they're trying
04:37to get this extension done. Who knows what's going on? Maybe trying to get this deal done now.
04:42So that you go to this new team and hopefully a contending team, you play well. And then they
04:48gave you the contract that you want because you don't want to just be there at the last minute.
04:54Next season at the end of the year. And then you may not be getting,
04:58you may not have the leverage. Well, the way the NBA is throwing money around.
05:06I do believe Jimmy would get an extension with 29 other teams. Now there's 30 teams in the NBA.
05:17The only one he wouldn't get it with is the heat. That's the way it's playing out for me.
05:24Because if they were going to give him an extension, he would already got it.
05:28And what's good for Jimmy is that those teams that are rumored to be his destination,
05:35need him. You saw that Warriors game yesterday against the Lakers.
05:41They need that dog. What Jimmy is, is a true score built like Draymond Green.
05:53Like Draymond Green does his thing, his assists, touch them all, but he's not the score that Jimmy
06:00is. I'm just, I'm just, it's just weird out to me that he's missed what three games now.
06:05With, and with all that being said, he's probably going to play tonight and score 40 points.
06:08Are we sure about this? Because if he, if he doesn't play tonight, is that means nothing.
06:15That's what that to me sounds like. Can I just say something? If you got bubble guts for over a week,
06:24you need medical attention. Like y'all know, listen, you know, when you get the bubble gut,
06:33you today's a bad food. I don't look, I'm from new Orleans where you like, you,
06:37you might get something that's a little bit too spicy. Right. And, and you know,
06:42you're in a little bit of trouble. It's like, it lasts for 24 hours. And then guess what you do?
06:48What was that? Let me try it again. Right. That's what we do. We're going to see,
06:52we're going to see, but if it's still lasted for a week, first of all, right.
06:57You're going to be dehydrated. Like you can't do bubble guts is not designed.
07:06No bubble guts. It's not, there's not enough nickel of ultra for him to drink.
07:15Hey, dude, if you, if you go out and just drink, first of all, you ain't go ahead of
07:21bubble guts for like 12 hours. Cause you're going to sleep at all. First.
07:25You see what I'm saying? Like, come on, come on.
07:32I'm going to just say this. If he don't play tonight,
07:37like I'm going to be, I might be full Tobin. Look,
07:41Tobin, Tobin, Mel, yo chumps nearly ruined Tobin's Christmas. I think
07:46Chum. He ruined Tobin's Christmas.