"I run this"??? Fuck that guy. His attitude is poison to any concept of team. If I were the Wolves, I'd take anything to get him as far away from my team as possible.
Seems like he wants... A) To get them traded Or B) One of them to grow a fucking sack I guarantee if that happened, Dame and CJ would be going at him NONSTOP. FOR their defencies, they aren’t soft
It sounds like he said he runs the whole team, but I think he meant he was running the player-only meeting, which he had called.
The only reason he is getting away with this is because that whole organization is softer than Charmin You see Nurkic letting Jimmy scream in his face, call him out, then pass the ball in the post??? This is hilarious A player actually using his leverage to get what he wants
This just keeps getting weirder and weirder. Things are so fucked up in MIN, they can't even agree on if there was a players' meeting, or not: Jeff Teague: @ShamsCharania it wasn’t no players meeting you just made that up bro y’all gotta relax with this fake news. – via Twitter Teague0 NBA on ESPN: Jimmy Butler confirmed to @Rachel__Nichols that he held a players-only meeting with Timberwolves players on Thursday,a day after he reported to the team for his first practice. – via Twitter Alex Kennedy: Another Wolves player, Darius Johnson-Odom, tweeted (then deleted) that there was no players-only meeting. So far, we have Jeff Teague, Darius Johnson-Odom and player-development coach John Lucas III saying there WASN’T a meeting versus Jimmy Butler saying there WAS a meeting. BNM
In other words, they say coaches were present and in charge? If it was only a player-development coach, that's not much authority, so I understand the ambiguity.
You wouldn’t give up Collins but you would Simons? Collins sucks. Simons in a few months only showed way more promise and excitement than Collins has. Simons is going to be a star one day you can just see it. Collins is a career backup type of player
I agree that Simons will be a super player and I realize that Collins has a ways to go yet, but my thinking is we would have a larger need at 4/5 than 2/3 with the addition of Butler if it was going to happen. I think Collins ceiling is very high too. With Trent, Curry & Stuaskus you could somewhat offset the loss of Simons. I'd rather keep them both.
and watch Butler start the season with them and they roll off 15 straight wins! Think his trade value still goes down?
That might be funny if Jimmy was actually winning something here, but so far it looks like everyone involved is going to come out losers. That shit show has made Jimmy, Thibs and the entire organization look bad. Jimmy's real beef seems to be he wants a max contract and MIN didn't want to give it to him. He, and they, have driven down his market value to the point where no one else will either. Seems kind of self-defeating to me. Plus, MIN will never get close to equal value back in a trade. So, they lose, too. BNM
You just KNOW that fucking Daryl Morey will end up getting Butler for scraps! I hate that fucking guy and the Rockets so much.