Jimmy Butler seemingly had a message for the NBA after he was traded to the Warriors on Wednesday evening.
The NBA star was dealt in a four-team commerce that concerned the Warmth, Warriors, Jazz and Pistons, in keeping with a number of studies.
Andrew Wiggins, P.J. Tucker, Kyle Anderson and a protected first-round decide are headed to Miami as a part of the deal that ends the long-running saga between Butler and the Warmth.
After information of the commerce broke on-line, Butler posted a tune on his social media accounts with the caption, “Welcome to the wild wild west.”
The posts additionally included a music notice emoji.
Rapper, singer, songwriter and file producer Breland was tagged within the submit on Instagram.
It’s not clear who the credit belong to on the tune with nation vibes, although it could possibly be from a rustic music mission that Butler has been engaged on with Breland.
The tune options lyrics that could possibly be perceived as a sign of what’s to return for him together with his new crew.
One verse of the tune went, “Try to put a bounty on my head and whole lotta people gonna wind up dead. Anything goes at the end of the road, ain’t nobody bout to slow me down.”
Butler had reportedly most well-liked to go to the Suns, however the deal that despatched him to Golden State is certain to be sufficient to make Butler pleased to be out of South Seaside, the place issues between him and the Warmth had deteriorated.
Whereas Miami had initially shot down notions that they might commerce Butler — with crew president Pat Riley even placing out a press release saying as a lot in December — they needed to do an about-face when it turned clear that Butler didn’t wish to play for the group any longer.
Within the weeks that adopted, Butler was suspended thrice for varied causes associated to “conduct detrimental to the team,” which included lacking a crew flight and strolling out of a morning shootaround after he was knowledgeable he wouldn’t be within the beginning lineup.
