Jimmy Butler

The Minnesota Timberwolves are locked in a heated battle to the finish line for the eight teams trying to make the NBA Playoffs and position themselves, those teams obviously not named the Houston Rockets or Golden State Warriors. They are currently sitting in the No. 8 spot at 40-31, only 1.5 games ahead of the [...]

Jimmy Butler’s injury will not compel the Minnesota Timberwolves to sign another player for the stretch run of the regular season—or so says coach-president Tom Thibodeau. From the Star Tribune‘s Jerry Zgoda: Wolves coach Tom Thibodeau said he and his staff will consider adding a player to a roster that has had one open spot all [...]

The Minnesota Timberwolves got some rough news over the weekend. Their leader and All-Star wing player Jimmy Butler will likely miss at the least the remainder of the regular season after suffering a torn meniscus in Minnesota’s loss to Houston Friday night. He underwent surgery over the weekend and doesn’t have a clear timetable for [...]

Jimmy Butler requested to get some rest and not be depended upon for Team Curry in the 2018 NBA All-Star Game, as he told Head Coach Mike D’Antoni: “Rest,” Butler said when asked why he didn’t play. “I have to rest. I have to rest my body up. This Timberwolves season is very, very important [...]

Jimmy Butler is one of the hardest working and most relied upon players in the NBA on a nightly basis. He currently leads the NBA in minutes per game at 37.3 and plays for a coach that is more notorious than almost any other in NBA history for playing his players an exorbitant amount of [...]

Jimmy Butler thinks very highly of Andrew Wiggins and Karl-Anthony Towns—you know, sometimes. Both of the Minnesota Timberwolves’ youngsters made some nice defensive plays down the stretch of this week’s victory over the Portland Trail Blazers, which had Butler buzzing afterwards, in a manner of speaking, per the Pioneer Press‘ Jace Frederick: “Please, Wiggs, we need [...]

People often stack up Jimmy Butler’s tenacious approach to defense alongside Tom Thibodeau’s maniacal approach to coaching. And where some players might try to separate themselves from such a comparison, Butler is leaning into it as a member of the Minnesota Timberwolves. As he told The Vertical’s Shams Charania: “These young guys do listen, but it’s [...]

As we all know and have for over a year now at least, the Boston Celtics have been in the perfect position to utilize their treasure chest of assets and their status as a fringe contender to make a big splash or two and acquire at least one of the many stars that have been [...]

Jimmy Butler is not a fan of the Chicago Bulls players who, reportedly, “really can’t stand” Dwyane Wade. While appearing on ESPN’s Tuesday edition of The Jump, Nick Friedell talked about why Flash’s no-practice regime and his decision to call out the young guns last season created some lingering tension within the locker room. Though he [...]

One can assume that LeBron James already is aware of this and is part of the reason he is openly frustrated with the Cavaliers off-season, but if he wasn’t aware this won’t make the situation any better. According to a Report from Jeff Zillgitt of USA Today, the Cavaliers were almost able to finalize a [...]