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Jimmy Butler’s World Is On A Collision Course With Heat Culture

ESPN Daily

ESPN

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When Jimmy Butler arrived in Miami in 2019, the initial thought was that this was a perfect marriage. You had a fanatically driven, yet volatile, All Star linking up with a celebrated NBA institution, better known as Heat Culture. And with two NBA Finals appearances in four years, everything was going as planned. But then stories of special treatment and feelings of disrespect started to bubble to the surface and suddenly Butler found himself at odds with the architect of Heat Culture – the indomitable Pat Riley.  Today, Ramona Shelburne joins us to break down how this went from bad to worse in Miami and how Jimmy Butler might have finally met his match. And don’t forget the playlist, featuring our favorite stories of 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

A couple years ago, Mo Mo Moe, Ramona Shelburne, I was in Arizona. It was Halloween. I had to get a manicure to paint my nails black because I had gotten in the mail a wig and a jersey so that I could be emo Jimmy Butler on the show we're both on around the horn. It was my first time getting a manicure. The wig was uncomfortable, but I nailed it.

0:23.4

I say all this to ask you the question.

0:26.4

What is the most Jimmy Butler moment you've ever experienced?

0:30.2

Because I experienced that, and he wasn't even there.

0:32.9

Oh, that's an amazing story.

0:34.4

Because you really did nail emo Jimmy.

0:37.2

But I think my most Jimmy moment was probably back when he was in Minnesota.

0:41.2

And he did not want to be in Minnesota anymore.

0:45.9

And I remember watching, I was home on maternity leave with my first son.

0:51.9

And we saw that interview,

0:55.3

which had been previously scheduled for that day,

0:57.2

and it was very helpfully scheduled right when he was about to make his request,

1:04.3

his trade request.

1:05.6

But he just absolutely demolished people in practice.

1:10.7

Like to the point where now when people have a trade demand or request,

1:15.3

the threshold of how far they're willing to take it is,

1:18.7

are they willing to go the full Jimmy?

1:21.4

To do the full Jimmy.

1:23.3

Because the way he got himself out of Minnesota was legendary.

1:29.5

Like, I don't know that anyone has choreographed an exit

1:33.3

the way that Jimmy Butler did from the Minnesota Timberwolves.

1:36.2

And we're kind of just at the beginning of how he's trying to choreograph his exit from the Miami Heat.

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