{"id":650305,"date":"2026-03-10T06:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/650305\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T06:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:01:18","slug":"jimmy-butler-roasts-heat-during-warriors-pitch-to-coco-gauff-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/650305\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Butler roasts Heat during Warriors pitch to Coco Gauff \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warriors forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/butleji01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Butler<\/a> spent six seasons with the Miami Heat before an ugly breakup that saw him traded to Golden State in February 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Despite leading the Heat to multiple NBA Finals appearances, the team felt it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/43586624\/jimmy-butler-suspended-again-walking-practice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">best to bench him<\/a> in favor of Haywood Highsmith last season. While that undoubtedly left a sour taste in his mouth, Butler suffering a torn ACL against them in January also appeared to add salt to his wound.<\/p>\n<p>When attempting to persuade Florida native and World No. 4 tennis star Coco Gauff to become a Warriors fan, Butler cited the fact that the Heat &#8220;hurt&#8221; him as a key reason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Heat hurt me,&#8221; Butler told Goff while attending the BNP Paribas Open. &#8220;I just want to say&#8230;Switch alliances and remember Steph [Curry], Steph is on my team now. So, everybody loves Steph.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSwitch alliances! And remember, Steph. Everybody loves Steph.\u201d \u2014 Jimmy Butler trying to get Coco Gauff to switch from a Heat fan to a Warriors fan <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QqA9eQBaBM\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/QqA9eQBaBM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dalton Johnson (@DaltonJ_Johnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaltonJ_Johnson\/status\/2031147473230790682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After Goff admitted that she &#8220;loved&#8221; Curry, Butler made sure to let everyone within a shout&#8217;s distance that he converted her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coco&#8217;s a Warriors fan! She said it! Coco loves the Warriors!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before going down with the knee injury, Butler was averaging 20.0 points, 5.6 rebounds and 4.9 rebounds on 51.9-percent shooting from the field and 37.6-percent from deep.<\/p>\n<p>And now when he returns for the Warriors, Butler might have a new fan in Goff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dubs-talk-a-golden-state-warriors-podcast.simplecast.com\/episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the Dubs Talk Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warriors forward Jimmy Butler spent six seasons with the Miami Heat before an ugly breakup that saw him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[7,144,313,295,189,3881,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-650305","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","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-heat","13":"tag-miamiheat","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116203361907574592","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650305","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=650305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}