{"id":691581,"date":"2026-01-20T16:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/691581\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T16:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:48:17","slug":"did-the-san-francisco-49ers-curse-warriors-star-jimmy-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/691581\/","title":{"rendered":"Did The San Francisco 49ers Curse Warriors Star Jimmy Butler?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23927202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jimmy-Butler.jpg\" alt=\"Jimmy Butler ACL Golden State Warriors\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">\u00a9 Kelley L Cox\/Imagn<\/p>\n<p>Golden State Warriors star Jimmy Butler suffered a torn ACL on Monday night against the Miami Heat, and he may well have the San Francisco 49ers to blame.<\/p>\n<p>The injury occurred in the third quarter when Butler caught a contested pass in the paint. After jumping up for the ball, Butler collided with Heat guard Davion Mitchell and landed awkwardly on his right leg before crumpling to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>He immediately left the game with the help of two teammates.<\/p>\n<p>Butler\u2019s agent, Bernie Lee, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anthonyVslater\/status\/2013641356950851627\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> the injury, calling it a \u201cgut punch\u201d and stating, \u201cI\u2019ve known for over 10 years now that Jimmy is going to win a championship before he is done. My belief in that is unwavering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, where do the 49ers come into play?<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco 49ers Pass Bad Juju On To Golden State Warriors\u2019 Star Jimmy Butler<\/p>\n<p>By now, most NFL fans know that San Francisco is the most-injured team in the NFL. In fact, that\u2019s been the case for multiple years now, and there\u2019s even a <a href=\"https:\/\/brobible.com\/sports\/article\/san-francisco-49ers-injuries-electromagnetism-near-practice-field\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">conspiracy theory to back it up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Niners\u2019 2025-26 season ended on Saturday at the hands of NFC West rival Seattle, and the San Francisco went into that game without several key players, including superstars George Kittle and Fred Warner.<\/p>\n<p>With their season now over, 49ers players Christian McCaffrey and Kyle Juszczyk decided to spend their Monday night at the Chase Center taking in a basketball game.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fi\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/49ers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#49ers<\/a> Kyle Juszczyk and Christian McCaffrey get an ovation at The Warriors game \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3LNbYdA284\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/3LNbYdA284<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OurSF49ers (@OurSf49ers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OurSf49ers\/status\/2013462403447456118?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was the first game the two have attended all season, and San Francisco fans on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OurSf49ers\/status\/2013462403447456118\/quotes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> were quick to point out that connection to Butler\u2019s injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst game these two attend and Jimmy Butler\u2019s ACL explodes,\u201d one fan wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCMC shows up and Jimmy Butler\u2019s knee explodes. Someone should tell him to turn off the injury devil magic, Niners already eliminated. We don\u2019t need to sacrifice any more players to keep him healthy. It\u2019s pointless now,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Butler, nobody told McCaffrey that the sacrifices are no longer working.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 Kelley L Cox\/Imagn Golden State Warriors star Jimmy Butler suffered a torn ACL on Monday night against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,7,3647,23144,155,6,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-691581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-golden-state-warriors","11":"tag-jimmy-butler","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-san-francisco","15":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","16":"tag-sanfrancisco","17":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115928453788811688","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}