Jimmy Butler

Why no, everything is not fine with the Chicago Bulls. Thanks for asking. Following the team’s Wednesday night loss to the Atlanta Hawks, Jimmy Butler and Dwyane Wade ripped their teammates for a seeming lack of effort, per the Chicago Tribune‘s K.C. Johnson: I wish I could say that everyone in here is going to go [...]

The Chicago Bulls looked like they might trade Jimmy Butler ahead of last June’s draft. But then they didn’t. And then they signed Rajon Rondo and Dwyane Wade. And then they were steamrolling opponents to start the 2016-17 crusade, essentially squelching all Butler speculation. But Chicago has since crashed back down earth, with a below-.500 [...]

Jimmy Butler has been fantastic this season—clearly the best wing in the Eastern Conference, so long as you don’t count Giannis Antetokounmpo or LeBron James as wings. On Wednesday night, he was fantastic again, scoring 14 points in the fourth quarter to secure the Chicago Bulls’ victory over the injury-infested Cleveland Cavaliers. His motivation for [...]

When Jimmy Butler capped off another quality performance with 52 points in the Bulls 118-111 comeback victory over the Charlotte Hornets Monday night in Chicago, Butler became the 8th player in the 2016-17 season to have a 50 point game. Feel free to read that sentence again. With Butler joining Russell Westbrook, James Harden, DeMarcus [...]

Jimmy Butler almost became a member of the Boston Celtics on draft night. Kind of. Sort of. Maybe. Look, we’re not sure, okay? But the talks we heard about between the Chicago Bulls and Celtics were real. Equally real, according to K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune, was Chicago’s interest in Boston’s offer: Jimmy Butler’s [...]

Stephen Jackson is serious about his NBA return, but he needs a team to take him seriously. He’s been out of the game for a few years, but he swears he has a couple years left in him. You hate to see this because if he doesn’t get a shot, he will not have left [...]

According to ESPN Reporter Zach Lowe, the Bulls have officially taken Jimmy Butler off the trade market and are no longer listening to offers from the Timberwolves and the Celtics. [tweet https://twitter.com/TheChiChronicle/status/752882488511455232] Butler seems to be an odd fit for the Bulls with their odd back court of Wade and Rondo. Their best three point [...]

Dwyane Wade shocked the NBA world Wednesday and confirmed the growing suspicion that his rift with the Miami Heat organization was becoming un-repairable by signing a two year, $47 million deal to join the Chicago Bulls. [tweet https://twitter.com/NBAonTNT/status/751094240759934977] Wade ended up signing a two-year deal with the Bulls for $7 million more than he was [...]

The Boston Celtics are trying to turn their No. 3 draft pick into a star-caliber player. It is not going well. From ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: But sources told ESPN that the Celtics, to date, have been rebuffed in their efforts to assemble a sufficiently enticing deal to acquire any of these four prime targets: Chicago [...]

Remember when, in 2011, the Boston Celtics passed on drafting Jimmy Butler so they could select MarShon Brooks? Good times. To be fair, Butler, the 30th pick in 2011, was passed over 29 times before being picked up by the Chicago Bulls. So it’s not like the Celtics are alone. But they can be uniquely [...]