Jimmy Butler reached out to the Warriors to halt trade talks with the Heat letting them know he wouldn’t sign an extension with them. Why does he continue to place himself in a corner? Tobin points out the differences in how the NBA has dealt with the Jimmy Butler situation in comparison to the Dame situation.
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00:00Crooked, the King says, can we trade Jimmy Butler for miles Garrett?
00:03I wish I'd probably shoot it down though.
00:05Last night, Jimmy Butler, this was the latest report that came.
00:08Uh, Brian Windhorst said that, uh, Jimmy Butler reached out to the
00:15warriors to halt trade talks with the heat, uh, letting them know that he
00:19wouldn't sign an extension with them.
00:22So there's that Jimmy Butler who, you know, his trade holdoff has
00:28basically sunk into irrelevance in the NBA scope because of the whole Luca thing.
00:33He basically was like, Oh guys.
00:35Also, I don't want to go to the warriors.
00:37I won't sign an extension with them.
00:38I was like, wait a minute.
00:39Didn't a second ago, the warriors barely want you in their locker room.
00:42Now you're saying, I don't want to sign an extension with you.
00:45Seems like kind of a, uh, I don't know.
00:48When I saw that report, I was like, what is this report?
00:50Like I get it.
00:51You're you still want to get to the, to the Phoenix suns, but I was under the
00:55like, I was under the impression, like the warriors barely wanted you.
00:58And now you're like, well, I won't even sign an extension with you guys.
01:01You're looking at it.
01:03I'm just curious as why is he making this as difficult as possible?
01:11Sometimes you got to let them know, you know, while we're at it, Beyonce, no,
01:14thanks, not interested.
01:16Huh?
01:17What?
01:18Let me go ahead and let everybody else know.
01:20Who's not interested in me that I don't want to go over there.
01:23Like we didn't want you anyway, dude.
01:26If Jimmy Butler sitting here telling the warriors, like, oh, you know what?
01:29Warriors, I don't want to go over there.
01:31The warriors are like, dude, nobody wanted you.
01:32Oh, you mean like if you were going to hook up with Beyonce, like, Hey,
01:35Beyonce, by the way, not interested.
01:38Thank God.
01:39Yeah.
01:39No.
01:39Like I was like, okay, I guess that, you know, they said that there was
01:44some trade talks to the warriors.
01:46Um, but like, I don't want to reach the extension.
01:49Like, didn't we just hear like, you know, Steph Curry and Steve Kerr, like,
01:53we're like, I don't even know.
01:55It's like a classic.
01:56Oh yeah.
01:59You're stuck up warriors.
02:02Look, we get a dude.
02:03He wants to go to the sons.
02:04We're not idiots here.
02:05Uh, are the heat going to get to a point where they ever just,
02:08uh, tap out and take Bradley Beal?
02:10My guess is no.
02:11So.
02:12You know, we'll see what happens by Thursday.
02:14I just saw Tim Reynolds report last night that he said that talks are still
02:17ongoing with the whole Jimmy Butler thing.
02:20Uh, Ira Winderman reported that Bernie Lee declined to comment to the
02:24sun Sentinel about this report regarding the warriors.
02:27And then, uh, Anthony Chang reported over the weekend.
02:30He goes, I think the only firm offered is the sun.
02:32I don't think you can think there are any, anything that's gotten to
02:35offer levels with this, with this whole thing.
02:39Um, it's just funny because it's like, now it's like, well, now trades have
02:44happened and now we're still sitting here.
02:46We're going on to month two of the Jimmy Butler, Miami heat trade saga.
02:51And it's like, all right.
02:54What's the next thing that you're going to do?
02:56Like, what's the next move they can pull off.
02:57And so like in this midst of like 10 minutes after the air and Fox gets
03:01traded, it felt like Jimmy's camp's like, wait a minute, let's have
03:04another headline about us.
03:06Oh, we won't go to the warriors.
03:09Boy, I gotta tell you, I gotta tell you what's up, man.
03:16You have just totally switched on this thing.
03:19I haven't switched on it at all.
03:20Actually, to be honest with you, I really haven't switched on it.
03:27Like I've, I've, would you, would you pay Jimmy now?
03:31Obviously not Leroy.
03:32Like you don't think the facts have changed, dude.
03:34Like, come on, be a grownup.
03:35Like, I don't think, I think we're in the same situation.
03:38It'd be like me coming to you after you wandering the parking garage for
03:41four hours, not finding your car and be like, you think you should've
03:43taken a picture now, of course.
03:47No, you're not going to pay Jimmy now.
03:48Oh, you mean like after him and Pat Riley have gone to war?
03:51Yeah.
03:52Obviously not, dude.
03:54Obviously not.
03:55And it's like one of these things that, but I do think it's one of these
03:59things where it's like, all right, where are they, he going to be at?
04:02Like the worst thing right now is that he are going to be like trying to be
04:07strong-armed into taking a contract.
04:10They don't want to take on in Bradley Beal.
04:12And Jimmy's trying to like, you're like, Oh, Chris, Lisa, I won't go there.
04:16Warriors.
04:17I, I won't sign there.
04:19All right, cool.
04:19You want to go to the sons?
04:20We get it, dude.
04:21And now it's like, you guys just have to take the Bradley Beal contract.
04:25It's like, well, no, we don't.
04:26We, you know what we've we're, we could be, we're pretty
04:29used to not playing with you now.
04:31So what's the worst that's going to happen?
04:33You're going to opt in and then you'll try and do the trade.
04:37And then you're going to what?
04:38Not sign an extension with somebody else.
04:39I don't even understand that there's like 30 games left in the regular season.
04:42Like, what does Jimmy feel like is like, what's the next thing he's going to do?
04:46Because the heat have already made it clear.
04:48Once he comes, if he did, let's just go say we get to the end of the suspension,
04:50right?
04:51No, that's the trade deadline.
04:52No deal happens.
04:53Okay.
04:53Now Jimmy has to come back.
04:55Well, but Eric's posters already said what he's going to do.
04:56He's going to sit your ass on the bench.
04:58Right.
04:58Pretty much.
04:59You're going to sit your ass on the bench.
05:01Get ready, get, get, get ready to have some popcorn next to Kevin love.
05:05And that's it.
05:06And then it'll be awkward for one game and then everybody will forget about it.
05:09But how, my question is, is how, how would the rest of the team feel with him?
05:15Just sitting here.
05:17I don't know.
05:17It'll probably get to the point where they just tell him to stay home, but
05:20they'll do a couple of games where it's like, he just sits there and I don't
05:22think that he don't care because Leroy, once he starts tanking performances,
05:27right.
05:28And it did make it like, what now is the worst that can happen?
05:31Right.
05:31What's the worst that can happen now?
05:33I really want to know, like, what did you do?
05:36I'm curious if Jimmy backed himself into a corner where even 2027, nobody's going
05:42to pay him right at like it is at some point if he had played basketball and
05:50requested a trade, at least there'll be a lot of organizations look at him and
05:55say, you know what, we, we, let's try to work it out.
05:58We're going to try to work it out.
05:59We're going to try to work it out.
06:00We're going to try to work it out.
06:01We're going to try to work it out.
06:02We're going to try to work it out.
06:03You know what, we, we, let's try to work this out.
06:06He's been a professional.
06:07It is interesting though.
06:08I would like to point out, you know, Damian Lillard says he wants to go
06:11somewhere and Adam silver steps in.
06:13Apparently there's no step in that when it comes to, uh, Jimmy Butler bombing
06:17his trade destinations, apparently that's not a thing.
06:20It's cool though.
06:21I'm not, I'm not petty about it or anything.
06:22I mean, you think Damon, Jimmy are on the same.
06:27It's not about same like last year, Damian Lillard deter tried to deter
06:31where he wanted to go and the NBA stepped in.
06:33You can't just say you want to go there.
06:35And now when Jimmy Butler says he just wants to go to one team,
06:38what have I heard from the NBA?
06:43I'm just saying like, I get it, but I think it's a different,
06:48yeah, that's what I'm saying.
06:51Do tell frog boy frog boy game was like, I want to go to the heat and Jimmy
06:57Butler's like, I'd like to go to a team that potentially plays in Arizona.
07:02And where's purple and orange where he only wants to go to
07:07Phoenix because they'll extend it.
07:09That's it.
07:10Well, apparently like, hold on, hold on.
07:12He's saying in this, in this regard, the report is now, I told the
07:16words, I won't sign an extension with them, which I don't even think they
07:19offered, but let's just, let's, you know, so now let me get this straight.
07:24You'll only sign an extension with one team, which come on, dude, let's,
07:29let's be, let's be real about it.
07:30Let's be grownups about this.
07:32And you're telling me, Damian Lillard, classy as all can be.
07:36It's so crazy.
07:37Tries his hardest.
07:38It's like, I really like to play for this one team.
07:41You shut up, Damian Lillard, you shut up.
07:43You'll go to Milwaukee and Jimmy Butler is out here actively
07:47tagging his performance, wearing another team's paraphernalia.
07:51And the NBA is like, you deal with it, that it's so crazy.
07:56Okay.
07:56I'm not whining about it or anything.
07:57I just think it's interesting.
07:59It's very interesting.
08:01It's noted,
08:06not petty about it at all.
08:07It's just interesting.
08:09Is it not
08:10very, very, I mean, yeah, I just think that they're on two different levels.
08:23Right.
08:23I mean, wouldn't you want to reward the classy guy?
08:27Yeah, absolutely.
08:30But, but here's the, sometimes the guy who doesn't make a stink and
08:36who is classy, they think they can run over him and he doesn't get his way.
08:42Yeah.
08:43But the only problem with Jimmy is, is that you're making it hard when
08:48you're not playing basketball and you know that you could possibly, you
08:51don't want to be a player that people say, if he's in a bad mood, he could
08:55sabotage what we're trying to do.
08:56That's like any, can any team who doesn't want to extend Jimmy think
09:03Jimmy's going to come in, give them a hundred percent effort when his whole
09:07gripe has been, he didn't get extended.
09:09Like what, like, this is the thing that I find funny about it.
09:11Right.
09:11Like eventually the guy, does he, does he think he's entitled to get
09:14an extension just from anybody?
09:15Like, like you're going to, you're going to get, you're going to eventually
09:20show that you have to play basketball.
09:21Like that's my, that's my, it's going to have to be a thing.
09:24The extension would have been probably available in more situations.
09:29Had he been balling this year, of course, right.