Jimmy Butler on the Miami Heat, Work Ethic, Baking, and Longevity in the NBA | Winging It

Winging It With Vince Carter

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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For our first episode of the new season (we miss you, Baze!), Jimmy Butler stops by to talk about his new city, Miami (3:30), the work ethic he’s brought to his career and how it’s made him a great player (7:50), lasting as long in the league as Vince (12:00), his new favorite hobby (29:10), his come up with the Bulls (34:00), and more. Hosts: Vince Carter and Annie Finberg Guest: Jimmy Butler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This MBA season, Mountain Dew is all about the threes, the shot that's changing the game.
0:06.0	Vince, you've obviously always been a dunker, but when did you really start focusing on your three-point shot?
0:11.0	I started focusing on my three point shot when they
0:14.5	wouldn't allow me to dunk the ball as much anymore.
0:17.1	So when more attention was put on me driving to the paint,
0:22.3	they were trying to make me a dump shooter, which I had the ability
0:25.3	I just didn't use it because I felt like I didn't need to. Now the three-point shot has evolved
0:29.7	where you're seeing five men shooting threes as much as the shooting guard is so it's just
0:35.4	something I've developed and gotten pretty good at. Brought to you by Mountain Dew
0:39.4	the official beverage of the NBA, do the do. Podcast.
1:00.0	Hello and welcome in to season 2 episode 1 of Winging It, part of the Ringer Podcast Network. I'm your host Annie Finberg.
1:02.0	As always, joined by my awesome and talented co-host, Mr Vince Carter.
1:05.8	B. C. in the house. And we are coming to you right now from New York City just to share with you the awesome news that we are back for another season.
1:12.4	We cannot wait to be here and share with you
1:15.0	all the all the lovely guests we have lined up
1:17.0	and as many of you can tell,
1:18.0	we are unfortunately without
1:20.0	last season's co-host, Camp Baysmore,
1:22.0	who is killing it out in Portland right now.
1:23.8	We miss him all the time, but don't worry because we will not be without him.
1:27.4	We plan to hopefully have him on for several segments, several episodes, so you will not
1:31.6	be without your Camp Baysez-Marr fix.
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