Jimmy Butler

Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Tom Thibodeau is wasting little time trying to get part of his Chicago Bulls band back together. According to ESPN.com’s Marc Stein, the Timberpups plan on using the No. 5 pick in June 23’s draft to assemble a package for Jimmy Butler: The Minnesota Timberwolves are prepared to part with the [...]

Jimmy Butler would probably be totally cool with the Chicago Bulls exploring all their options this summer if one of those options didn’t, ostensibly, include tying him to a runaway trade rumor mill. Allow K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune to explain: For all the talk about how executive vice president John Paxson and general [...]

Are you an NBA general manager interested in trading for Jimmy Butler? Good news: The Chicago Bulls will listen to your offer. Bad news: They just don’t plan on accepting it. From CSNNE.com’s A. Sherrod Blakely: A league source tells CSNNE.com that the Bulls, while still open to listening to offers for Butler, are telling [...]

Jimmy Butler and Derrick Rose are hardly considered one of the NBA’s dynamic duos. And, for their part, they’re trying to make sure that changes. As Jimmy Butler said, per The Chicago Tribune‘s Teddy Greenstein: Butler said he plans to workout with Derrick Rose in the offseason. “I think we will,” he said. “When we [...]

And the Jimmy Butler rumor mill train rolls on. Chicago Bulls general manager Gar Forman held an impromptu presser following the team’s win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday, during which he was asked to address the future of presumed franchise cornerstone Jimmy Butler. His answer, per K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune, left room [...]

The Bulls were in New Orleans last night to take on the Pelicans as they wrap up a very disappointing season. One where they’ll miss the postseason for the first time in eight years. All members of the team arrived in New Orleans via the team plane. All except Jimmy Butler that is. Butler arrived [...]

Stop asking Jimmy Butler about his relationship with Derrick Rose. The Chicago Bulls’ duo has faced plenty of questions over the last year. Their ties have been painted as less than cordial in the past—fodder for the rumor mill and evidence of why the Bulls are so far from where they’re expected to be. But [...]

Well, this is unexpected. Chris Mannix of The Vertical created a slight stir when he noted that “several rival executives” were planning to resume trade pursuits of Chicago Bulls All-Star Jimmy Butler. The thinking, it went, was that the Bulls weren’t initiating talks or even open to anything. Rival executives were just trying to be [...]

Jimmy Butler apparently isn’t untouchable to the Chicago Bulls. This is a weird thing to write, and an even weirder thing to know. It wasn’t long ago that these Bulls were supposed to be the biggest threat to the Cleveland Cavaliers’ throne. Now they’re on the verge of missing the playoffs under rookie head coach [...]

Jimmy Butler is injured again. Just one game after returning from a left knee injury that kept him on the shelf for 11 games, Butler didn’t play in the Chicago Bulls’ Monday night win over the Milwaukee Bucks due to swelling in that same left knee. The Bulls are downplaying the severity of this setback, [...]