Jimmy Butler should still be searching for his pleasure in Miami, even now that he’s with a brand new workforce.
The Warriors — Butler’s new workforce — received the doorways blown off of them by the Warmth — Butler’s outdated workforce — on an evening that the veteran star returned to South Florida for the primary time since he was traded by Miami to finish a contentious relationship between the 2 sides.
And that competition was on show as NBA reporter Taylor Rooks mentioned the dialog she had with Butler earlier than the 112-86 loss, the place he threw loads of shade at Warmth president Pat Riley.
“I have nothing to say to Pat, and Pat better have nothing to say to me,” Rooks mentioned that Butler advised her.
The feedback shouldn’t come as an excessive amount of of a shock, contemplating how issues ended with the Warmth.
Butler requested to be traded in January and made it clear that his time in Miami was going to come back to an finish.
The Warmth initially publicly said they’d not commerce Butler, solely to reverse course shortly after.
Butler was additionally suspended thrice proper earlier than the commerce, with the ultimate one being indefinite.
The saga lastly got here to an finish on Feb. 5 earlier than the NBA commerce deadline when the cope with the Warriors got here collectively.
Butler completed the sport with 11 factors on 5-of-12 taking pictures from the sector. Booes might be heard whereas his tribute video was performed inside Kaseya Heart earlier than some mild applause when he was launched within the startin lineup for Golden State.
He didn’t shake fingers with any of his former Warmth teammates and rapidly went to the locker room after going as much as a pair of individuals sitting alongside the baseline.
“I got a lot of love for this city and the fanbase here,” Butler advised reporters after the sport. ‘The video was nice. I won’t say that there’s plenty of emotion. I went into this factor level-headed and wished to win the sport however it didn’t go the way in which that we deliberate.”
