three suspensions<\/a>\u00a0in January,\u00a0the infamous comment about lost joy\u00a0and\u00a0the criticism he took from Heat president Pat Riley after last season\u00a0\u2014 notwithstanding, Butler left his mark on Heat history. He leaves as the franchise\u2019s regular-season leader with 13 triple-doubles, plus is eighth on the team\u2019s lists of points, rebounds and assists.<\/p>\n\u201cI know I have my joy back now,\u201d Butler said.<\/p>\n
He said he\u2019s moved on, indicating that whatever went wrong at the end doesn\u2019t matter now.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t got too many bad things to say about them,\u201d Butler said. \u201cI don\u2019t. They gave me opportunity. I felt like I did my job to the highest level. I have so much respect for that organization, for the people that\u2019s running that organization and for my former teammates. And I\u2019m always going to wish them the best. \u2026 I\u2019ve got a lot of love for a lot of people over there in that organization.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, why did he want the trade?<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know. Maybe just a lot of talking back and forth,\u201d Butler said. \u201cAnd sooner or later, the talking\u2019s got to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n
Butler\u2019s postseason numbers \u2014 when \u201cPlayoff Jimmy\u201d emerged \u2014 were even better. He\u2019s third on the Heat\u2019s playoff scoring list and second behind only LeBron James in playoff points per game for Miami.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he\u2019s engaged and healthy and is going out there and playing really hard, he\u2019s still one of the best in the league,\u201d Heat forward Kevin Love said.<\/p>\n
The full trade:<\/p>\n
To Miami \u2014 Wiggins, Kyle Anderson and a 2025 protected first-round draft pick from Golden State, and Davion Mitchell from Toronto.<\/p>\n
To Golden State \u2014 Butler, who got a two-year, $113 million extension and is under contract through 2026-27.<\/p>\n
To Utah \u2014 Josh Richardson, a 2031 second-round draft pick and cash considerations from Miami, along with Kenyon Martin Jr. and a 2028 second round draft pick from Detroit.<\/p>\n
To Detroit \u2014 Dennis Schroder, Lindy Waters III and a 2031 second-round draft pick from Golden State.<\/p>\n
To Toronto \u2014 P.J. Tucker from Utah, along with a 2026 second-round draft pick and cash considerations from Miami.<\/p>\n
Kerr said Butler could debut as soon as Saturday at Chicago, one of Butler\u2019s previous playing stops. Kerr already has one thing in mind for how to use Butler: He\u2019ll be on the floor when Curry is not, so Golden State can run its offense through him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a great player,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cAll great players, they figure out how to play with other great players so I\u2019m not too worried about him fitting in with his teammates. We just have to simplify the actions that we run, just make sure we\u2019re letting him settle in with a few different things that we run with good spacing and let him play basketball. I don\u2019t think that will be too big of a challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
Motivating Butler won\u2019t be a challenge, either. He\u2019s got his contract. He\u2019s got his new team. He just needs the ring now.<\/p>\n
\u201cYo, Dub Nation. Jimmy Butler here,\u201d\u00a0Butler said in a short video\u00a0released by the Warriors\u2019 social media team. \u201cJust touched down, do this physical. Super excited, ready to win, ready to work, ready to put on a show for y\u2019all. Let\u2019s get it. Championship coming soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Warriors adding Jimmy Butler at the trade deadline, Golden State must recalibrate on the fly to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[7,144,10267,295,189,3881,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-206143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-heat","10":"tag-jimmy-butler-warriors","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-heat","13":"tag-miamiheat","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114950634460061115","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}