Miami Heat Great and the temple of fame Tim Hardaway Ripped Nba All-Star Jimmy Butler above his saga preceding the NBA trade deadline, calling Butler a “crybaby” to be unhappy and acting in a way that forced Miami to engrave his requests and exchange it towards The Golden State Warriors. Although he said publicly that they were not going to treat Butler despite his request to be exchanged, the heat was forced to conclude an agreement to send him a packaging after Butler was suspended several times to have a driving detrimental to the team.
The act of Butler did not know well with Hardaway, who spent the primary of his career with the heat from 1996 to 2001 and became one of the greatest players in the history of the franchise during this period .
“I do not agree with what he was doing. You are under contract. You are a baby. You are a crybaby because they told you” no “, said Hardaway in Siriusxm. “We used to say” no “all the time, and we knew how to take it. That’s what it is. This is a question, you get a yes or a no. You might not like it (answer), but you cannot deviate and spoil the team, okay? “”
Butler was exchanged after a nasty saga resulting from failed contractual negotiations. The six times All -Star asked for an extension after helping to lead the heat to two finals of the Eastern Conference, but the team did not grant their wish, with the age and injuries of Butler – This contributed to Miami before making the playoffs through the NBA game – in the tournament – being major considerations.
In December, Butler said he would prefer to be exchanged, but the president of the Pat Riley team made the public clearly that Miami was not going to hand it over. This sparked a series of alleged incidents for which Butler was suspended, in particular by leaving training and missing a team flight.
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“I blame them for letting him get away with a lot of things too. You have to bite him into the egg,” said Hardaway, specifically pointing an incident where Butler threatened coach Erik Spoelstra. “… it should have been: ‘Yo, you get three to five games. You are not talking to the coach like that. You are not lacking in the coach like that.'”
The last months have marked the second major commercial drama of Butler’s career, when he also forced his way out of the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2018. Butler was exchanged in the Warriors in an agreement of five teams that saw the heat Acquire Andrew Wiggins and the Warriors Sign Butler to an extension of $ 121 million over two years after Butler refused his player option for the season 2025-26.
