Butler – heat problems in the past, hungry after title with warriors

Los Angeles – SPARTER A HUGE SMILE, JIMMY Butler couldn’t have seen anything happier to be a Golden State Warrior.

Butler, who was presented to the media here with his new team, said he is excited to have a new start and playing basketball again after a swelling ending with Miami Heat.

“All this is behind me and goes on,” Butler said as he was asked about the speculation that surrounded him over the past month. “I’m glad to be here. I’m glad to be in demand again.”

When asked to regain his joy was just a matter of being able to go on a New Jersey – he will wear # 10 after Brazilian football – Super star Neymar – and be able to play basketball again, butler could butler does not contain his enthusiasm.

“I got the feeling that I (go) back in a big way too,” he said. “So I smile. I’ve gone on what I’ve been training. I’ve done everything I should do. I know I have my joy left now. I’m in a different situation, different groups of guys.”

Butler said he hopes to have his Golden State debut on Saturday against Chicago Bulls in Chicago. The six-time All-Star initially said he had nothing negative to say about the heat, noting how he formed a lot of long-lasting conditions in his five-plus seasons with the franchise.

But when asked what made him leave, he also made it clear that his time in South Beach essentially ended when his relationship with team president Pat Riley and the organization got mad.

“It’s actually a good question,” Butler said. “That’s a good question. I don’t know. Maybe just a lot to talk back and forth. And sooner or later, talking has to stop.”

Miami suspended Butler three times this season, twice for behavior harmful to the team. He also missed a team flight. His last suspension started on January 27, after leaving Shootaround when he was told he would come from the bench. The heat announced that the suspension would last at least five games that went up to Thursday’s trading deadline. He has not played since January 21st.

Warriors said they are in ecstasy to land an elite two -way player who Butler to pair with Stephen Curry and Daymond Green. They traded Andrew Wiggins, Kyle Anderson, Dennis Schroder, Lindy Waters III and a 2025 top-10 protected first round election in a Multiteam agreement for Butler, which sources also agreed to a new two-year-old, $ 111 million, which Runs through the 2026-27 season.

Warriors have been desperate to find Curry some help. After a 12-3 start, they have sputtered and participated in Thursday’s match against Los Angeles Lakers with a 25-25 record.

“He is a big-time press player, Postseason player,” said Warriors coach Steve Kerr before the game. “So it would fit well in our dressing room. We have other guys who have been through the beats been through the war. So I think when you put a group of guys like that there will be a belief that will be A confidence that comes with it.

While Curry said he would watch Heat movies to try to see what suits Butler’s games best and what can be included with the Golden State’s offensive system, Butler said it will be easy to fit into his new team.

“We’re good,” butler said. “Go past the ball to Steph. And get out of the way. Easy.”

Butler, who has shown the ability to wear a team on his back in the post -season, says he can learn something about winning from Curry, Green and Kerr, who have won four championships with Warriors.

Green has said that Butler will fit well because he has a winning pedigree like Warriors. Green also said he sees a lot of similarities in how he and butler play with an edge and aggression.

“I think our personalities will be okay,” Butler said of playing with Green. “I’d like to say I’m a winner. I haven’t won it. But I would like to call myself a winner. I want to win it. It’s a championship.

“To play with Steph, I mean everyone knows he’s the biggest shooting game in the world, biggest shooting games in history. Make my job much easier. I probably have a lot more space out there.”

Warriors General Manager Mike Dunleavy Jr. said the franchise got what it led to a star talent to help maximize Curry’s and Green’s championship window while giving up no assets like Jonathan Kuminga, Brandin Podziemski or several first round.

“We’ve chosen a path and we’re going in one direction and we have three kinds of older generation players,” Dunleavy said. “But the beauty of it all to me is that we have a lot of good complementary We a lot of flexibility.

Dunleavy has said that the only way Golden State will prioritize its future is for a franchise-changing type of superstar. And he says Warriors is still positioned to go after such a blockbuster movement if the opportunity presents itself in the future.

“Come this draft, I think we want more unprotected choices available, choose swaps and everything else on the guard plan that people find attractive,” he said. “So I think from this point of view, we can evaluate this list more, and if there are other features to be done, we will be in the game for them, just as we have been for everything else.”

If Butler has his way, he adds another title to the Golden State dynasty. He is happy to play “meaningful basketball” again.

“I just want to be able to go out there and do what I’ve been doing for a very long time,” Butler said. “And have fun, smile, rip and run and don’t feel like I’m just doing the cardio majority of the game.

“So I’m very, very, very glad I don’t get suspended no more.”