Jimmy Butler: "You Need People Like Me...The Bad Guy" + Says Heat Culture Overrated

[Trav]

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

I mean whenever there’s an issue and you’re on the team

Now let me finish my sandwich and wait for the Yimmy defenders to neg me

 

[Trav]

In the minutes after the Golden State Warriors wrapped up a five-game trip in Brooklyn earlier this month, Jimmy Butler pulled Steve Kerr aside for a brief conversation in the visiting locker room.

The message: He wasn’t flying back to San Francisco with the team. He needed to fly separately to Miami.


“To pick my kids up,” Butler said.

As he did occasionally with the Miami Heat — in an arrangement permitted early in his time with the organization and grumbled about later — Butler will not stay at the team hotel during the Warriors’ four-day stop in Miami this week. It’s a rare in-season chance for him to spend extended time away from the arena with his three young children, who live there, so he’s staying somewhere with more space and privacy.

That’s why he zipped out of the arena right after the Brooklyn game. The Warriors were about to start a two-week homestand, and he wanted his children around while adjusting to a new city. So he needed to get to Miami to travel with them to San Francisco.

“I pulled Steve aside and said, ‘Steve, I’m finna fly home and grab my kids,’” Butler recalled. “He said, ‘Oh, OK. Yeah. See you back in the Bay.’ Like nothing else. Nothing.”

Butler makes it clear: This wasn’t a request; it was a courtesy alert. His stature and success have generated an amount of power he has — and will — unapologetically leverage. He’d never had a conversation with Kerr prior to the trade-deadline blockbuster that sent him to Golden State. But in their first one-on-one, the Warriors’ coach laid out his two non-negotiables: Show up on time and compete to win as part of the group. That’s it.

“There was some foundation to it in the sense of the work and all that stuff, which is great,” Butler said last week. “I’m not saying it in a bad way, but I think it’s a little bit, like, overused talking about the ‘Heat Culture.’ It is a great organization. But I think a large part of that culture is you get guys that buy into a (winning mindset). You get some guys that buy in, you get some really good players and you get the opportunity to talk about ‘Heat Culture’ a little bit more. I’’m not saying it to talk down or anything, but I think whenever you have really good players you can name it whatever you want to name it.”

 

[WhatsGoodTy]

I think Jimmy be leaving these teams cause he thinks everybody else is hoe ass nikkas.

 

[Boogie]

Heat culture was overrated anyway they ain’t been the same since LeBron left

 

[Trav]

Heat culture was overrated anyway they ain’t been the same since LeBron left

You ain't believe in Heat Culture wit Zo? Or later wit Wade? Or was that the "good players" shyt Yimmy Buckets was talmbout?

 

[PatCake]

He's done being fake-humble. Honeymoon period's over. He's comfortable now they'll see his true attitude

 

[Panthro11]

Playoff Jimmy has been activated

 

[Goat poster]

2 things can be true

1) Jimmy can be an annoying disrupter

2) he's an amazing competitor that will make your team better if y'all are built to compete

It works until it doesn't and he moves on.

 

[Blessings]

I respect it + he ain’t lying

 

[Blessings]

2 things can be true

1) Jimmy can be an annoying disrupter

2) he's an amazing competitor that will make your team better if y'all are built to compete

It works until it doesn't and he moves on.

Annoying to who?

 

[Boogie]

You ain't believe in Heat Culture wit Zo? Or later wit Wade? Or was that the "good players" shyt Yimmy Buckets was talmbout?

They won that fluke chip back in 06 where they cheated Dirk after that they was treadmill status until LeBron came

 

[CHICAGO]

I mean whenever there’s an issue and you’re on the team

Now let me finish my sandwich and wait for the Yimmy defenders to neg me

YET EVERYTIME HE LEAVES A TEAM
THEY GET WORSE WHILE
HIS NEW TEAM IMPROVES...

EVERY SINGLE TIME



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[cheapshot]

You ain't believe in Heat Culture wit Zo? Or later wit Wade? Or was that the "good players" shyt Yimmy Buckets was talmbout?

Heat culture wasn't for everybody. A few players played better away from the heat (not a lot).

If they don't have the talent, the culture isn't going to bring them wins.

 

[lib123]

Heat culture isn't overrated as far as how they consistently find 2nd round and undrafted players and turn them into legit NBA starters.