Where will Jimmy Butler end up? 2025 edition

[Ronin]

Evan Sidery

@esidery
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30m

The Grizzlies have kept an offer on the table to the Heat for Jimmy Butler, even with him not wanting to go there.If the Suns are unable to find a third team to take on Bradley Beal’s contract, Memphis is one of the top teams waiting to potentially pounce.

 

[Ronin]

Evan Sidery

@esidery
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3m

The Suns and Warriors are currently viewed as the most likely landing spots for Jimmy Butler, per @ShamsCharania on @PatMcAfeeShow.The Heat have officially decided not to keep Butler past the trade deadline.

 

[BirdGangThing]

are we gonna get butler for nothing?

 

[Superbone]

are we gonna get butler for nothing?

Yeah, right.

 

[AzStevenCal]

are we gonna get butler for nothing?

That would make him good for nothing.

 

[GatorAZ]

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[BirdGangThing]

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this barry guy is legit too

 

[BirdGangThing]

unless someone takes beal - we don't get butler

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[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

And Joe Johnson left because he didn't want to be the 3rd or 4th best player on the Suns and he wanted to go back to the South. Sarver was willing to pay him what he asked, Joe asked him not to match. Yes, we could and should have met his agent's demands before his last season with us but I worry about a player like that.

. . . a year too late. Had he done it the first time around with jj he would’ve remained a sun. He was penny wise and pound foolish.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Yeah, but they had Stoudemire coming into his third season.

It doesn’t change the fact that they were a bad team. The contention was high profile free agents don’t join bad teams. Well Nash did. That’s indisputable.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Good point, but the Suns that time already had a great young core in Stoudemire-Marion-Joe Johnson.

They had a young core. But 29 wins doesn’t indicate “great.” It indicates potential. Many young teams never mature into greatness.

 

[elindholm]

It doesn’t change the fact that they were a bad team. The contention was high profile free agents don’t join bad teams. Well Nash did. That’s indisputable.

Sure, okay, so modify it to "high-profile free agent don't join bad teams with very low potential," which is what the Suns will be.

Also, Nash wasn't exactly a high-profile free agent in the summer of 04. He'd made two All-Star teams, but he'd averaged better than 8 apg only once and was the third wheel to Nowitzki and Finley. He ended up turning the Suns franchise around, but not too many people saw that coming, and it was possible only because of the untapped strength of his teammates.