Jimmy Butler Trade: Heat Send unhappy star to warriors after trade demand, suspensions

Miami, Florida - November 29: Jimmy Butler #22 from Miami Heat responds to Toronto Raptors during the second quarter of Emirates NBA Cup in Kaseya Center on November 29, 2024 in Miami, Florida. Note to the user: User expresses and expressly accepts that the user, by downloading and or using this photograph, accepts the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images)

Jimmy Butler was a perfect fit for the heat until he basically announced he wasn’t. (Megan Briggs/Getty Images)

Jimmy Butler has once again found a new NBA team, with the bridge randomly burned behind him.

Miami Heat assigned their dissatisfied star’s trade request on Wednesday and ended an agreement to send him to the Golden State Warriors, according to Espns Shams Charania. The deal will reportedly send Andrew Wiggins, Dennis Schroder, Kyle Anderson and a protected first round pick back to Miami.

The deal is a three-team trade as Lindy Waters III and Josh Richardson are Both of them went toward Detroit Pistons.

Minutes later, Charania reported Butler has accepted a two-year extension of $ 121 million to remain in the Golden State through the 2026-27 season.

This will be Butler’s fifth NBA team, and he has still not yet left one clean, although it is not as if he has not been justified over time. He was traded from Chicago Bulls after colliding with head coach Fred Hoiberg and questioning his teammates’ motivation. He was traded from Minnesota Timberwolves after similar clashes with Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins. He jumped to Miami Heat after Philadelphia 76ers chose Tobias Harris over him.

And now he leaves the heat after several suspensions, all ahead of a surreal news conference, stating that he no longer enjoyed the basketball match and didn’t think he could get it back in Miami.

The heat responded first by suspending Butler in seven matches – a complaint from the National Basketball Players Association is still pending – and announces that they would investigate to trade with him.

Butler was then suspended in two matches after he missed a team flight. The day he had to return from this suspension, Butler stormed out of a team practice after learning that he would not be in the starting lineup. The heat suspended him indefinitely and said he would be out right up to the trade deadline to a minimum.

All the recent butler drama came after the erosion of his relationship with the team’s front office, especially team president Pat Riley.

The excitement began to leak out after the heat was removed in the first round of the playoffs against Boston Celtics last season. Butler missed the whole series with a knee injury, suggesting that the team would still play if he was healthy. In response, Riley publicly said butler about “keeping your mouth shut.”

That was after Riley announced that the team would not expand Butler’s contract beyond this season. Recently, there was a report on Christmas that Butler prefers a trade from the heat before the February, although he had not made a formal request.

Riley strongly rejected the idea and clearly said, “We’re not acting Jimmy Butler” in a statement. Butler did not seem to agree as he basically shrugged his shoulders when asked if he would remain with the heat for the rest of the season. Two days later, he told the world that there was no one to solve his role in the heat.

Before this news conference, Butler had returned from a five-gaming absence, with what the team called a disease. When the suspension was announced, he was on average the fewest minutes in his career, going back to the 2012-13 season, his second in the league.

However, there were plenty of good before that. In an NBA that feels more and more controlled by super teams, Butler led the heat to two NBA finals with a supportive crew that felt refreshing traditional. Bam Adebayo is an all-star, and Tyler Herro, Duncan Robinson and Caleb Martin were all good players, but the heat seemed to turn fully about the cultural butter and head coach Erik Spoelstra built.

Butler was a perfect match to the heat until he was very public not. The team tried to keep its reason the best it could, but it ended up being another stop in a career that is likely to land Butler in the Hall of Fame, but with potentially fewer friends than you would expect.