Jimmy Butler

Boston Celtics president Danny Ainge has some brass ones. We knew the Celtics tried to acquire a big name ahead of the Feb. 18 trade deadline and failed. We also knew that they targeted players we likely never knew about. And, finally, we on some level knew we would find out who those nameless players [...]

Jimmy Butler left Friday’s game vs. the Nuggets after an apparent knee injury. It didn’t look good, as he needed help exiting the court. Today, the Bulls received terrible news in that they will need to be without him for about a month. Butler is also an all-star reserve and his teammate, Pau Gasol, will [...]

Mike Dunleavy is back! Or, well, almost back. Dunleavy has yet to play this season as he rehabilitates a back injury that required surgery and included post-surgical complications. But that will all change on Saturday when the Chicago Bulls face the Minnesota Timberwolves, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of the Vertical: Chicago Bulls forward Mike Dunleavy [...]

Jimmy Butler continues to mold himself into a top tier player in the NBA and establish himself as the Bulls go to player. Butler scored an incredible 42 points in the second half of the Bulls 115-113 win over the Raptors on Sunday, breaking Michael Jordan’s franchise record for points in a half which was [...]

Golden State Warriors All-Star guard Klay Thompson says he’s the best shooting guard in the NBA today, a drum he’s been beating the last few years, especially since the physical decline of the great Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers. When asked about his starting five at each position today, Klay named Curry at [...]

If Jimmy Butler doesn’t understand the concept of monitored minutes, he’s about to. Rather than work Butler, 26, to the bone during the regular season, new Chicago Bulls head coach Fred Hoiberg is preparing to do something new: cut Butler’s minutes. From CSNChicago.com’s Vincent Goodwill: At first it was Luol Deng but now Butler has [...]

Yeah, so, the Jimmy Butler-Derrick Rose feud that isn’t needs to die. Sure, NBA rumor mills are relentless, and the Chicago Bulls’ dynamic duo, which has yet to spend 1,500 total minutes on the court since Butler entered the league, is not above that ruthlessness. But, like, come on. Enough speculation has been presented and [...]

Jimmy Butler and Derrick Rose need to spend some time in the lab together. Their chemistry is off. Off-ish, at least. Rumors of slight discord between Butler and Rose haven’t dominated the Chicago Bulls’ offseason, but they have been a part of it. The two apparently aren’t the best of friends, and in the NBA, [...]

Jimmy Butler bet on himself earlier in October when he elected not to sign the contract extension the Chicago Bulls laid before him. Now he’s preparing to bet on himself again. That initial gamble paid off. The Bulls were slinging something like $10 million annually at the time, and Butler quickly established himself as a [...]

Derrick Rose and Jimmy Butler may not have been playing nice when the Chicago Bulls went down in a haze of nothingness against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 6 of the NBA semifinals. That’s the story anyway, as told by CBS Chicago’s Dan Bernstein: It made little sense that Rose attempted only four second-half shots, [...]