Warriors' Jimmy Butler blasts 'cheap' Bulls, 76ers' lack of accountability
03/24/2025 09:56 AM
Golden State Warriors star Jimmy Butler is seemingly feeling comfortable with his new team. Adjusting to a new NBA environment isn’t new for the former Marquette Golden Eagles star. Before he landed in San Francisco via a trade from the Miami Heat last February, Butler had played for four different teams in the league.
He started his career in the NBA with the Chicago Bulls, who took him in the first r0und (30th overall) of the 2011 NBA draft. Be blossomed into a legitimate two-way star with Chicago, as he earned his first three All-Star nods and became a three-time NBA All-Defensive Second Team member during his stint in Windy City. But Butler’s time with the Bulls ended in the summer of 2017 when Chicago traded him to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
For Butler, he believed that the Bulls were trying to avoid paying him the money he viewed he was worth.
"Chicago was being cheap, actually,” Butler said of the Bulls (h/t Anthony Slater of The Athletic). “They didn't want to pay me the supermax. It wasn't about the money in other places. It was about winning. And with winning comes everything else that you could want. With winning comes the money. With winning comes the fame.”
Butler also criticized the culture that he saw during his tenure with the Timberwolves and the Philadelphia 76ers.
"You got to be able to talk to everybody," Butler shared, talking about his direct approach when relaying his thoughts to the Sixers. "As long as it was in the right direction toward winning, it shouldn't matter how it comes across. It's not that there's malicious intent about it. You had some differences between players and coaches. You had some differences between players and players. And it was just, I mean, you kind of couldn't talk to nobody."
All those are behind Butler now, as he looks to finally win that elusive NBA ring with the Warriors. He came close to winning the top team prize in the league in 2020 but fell short in the NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers.
Golden State is still in a precarious spot in the Western Conference standings, but Butler appears to love playing alongside proven winners like Draymond Green and Stephen Curry.
Through 19 games with the Warriors, Butler has averaged 17.6 points, 6.1 rebounds and 6.5 assists while shooting 43.8 percent from the field.
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