Jimmy Butler Rumors

Legion Hoops: Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins have won an NBA championship before Jimmy Butler.

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Staying with the Lakers is widely believed to be his preferred choice because he is so entrenched in Los Angeles now after eight seasons with the purple and gold. Yet league sources maintain that Golden State remains legitimately interested in adding LeBron to their Stephen Curry/Jimmy Butler/Draymond Green core coached by Steve Kerr ... with the pitch presumed to include the idea that LeBron could commute from Los Angeles to some TBD degree without having to move his family.

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Along the way, with Karl-Anthony Towns leading the Knicks in playoff plus-minus while averaging 17.3 points, 10.8 rebounds and 5.6 assists in the playoffs, it has become quite evident that he deserves the kind of respect that some of his peers have been loath to give over the years (from Jimmy Butler on down the line). His defense against Spurs big man Victor Wembanyama in this series’ first two games should be enough to reshape how he’s viewed. That this revelatory showing comes after Randle struggled so mightily to contain Wemby in the Spurs’ second-round win over Minnesota, meanwhile, surely makes it all that much sweeter for Towns. (Conversely, what might Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards be thinking as he ponders the what-if of it all right about now?)

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HoopsHype: Just another playoff record ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Draymond Green: "Li-Ning also plans to build Curry brand stores in the United States and in China. One factor that was key in his decision to go with Li-Ning, they said was the comfort while he was testing the shoes of two of their signature athletes, Jimmy Butler and Dwyane Wade. And I know that to be factual because one and how they treat those guys, because one big thing when Steph signed with Under Armour way back in the day was actually how they treated Kent Bazemore and the sneakers that Kent Bazemore was wearing as Steph tried the sneakers and he saw how they was treating Bazemore. That was one key thing that he saw when he was signing with Under Armour. So I know that this was key in him signing with Li-Ning."

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Nick DePaula: “Throughout my sneaker free agency, I was impressed by the quality, comfort & performance of Li-Ning’s shoes. It was during that time playing in @DwyaneWade and @JimmyButler’s sneakers, that I knew Li-Ning could be the right partner to deliver on the innovation & design that I want Curry Brand to stand for.”

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Butler took the stage at the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival on Friday and crooned along to some throwback hits, including "A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton and "Beautiful Soul" by Jess McCartney, much to the delight of the Bay Area crowd. Butler's hilarious personality has captured the heart of Golden State fans since the Warriors traded for him in February 2025, and it's clear the admiration is mutual. The 36-year-old certainly seemed to enjoy giving the BottleRock crowd a show they wouldn't forget.

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Sean Cunningham: Jimmy Butler singing “A Thousand Miles” might contend for the highlight of @BottleRockNapa 2026. @JimmyButler

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They refused to discuss trading away Butler in February, league sources say, even after Butler was lost for the season to a torn ACL. Yet the inescapable reality for the proud Warriors is that they've missed the playoffs entirely in two of the past three seasons and now find themselves at their most daunting crossroads in years. Beyond Kerr's uncertain future and the very real prospect that the Warriors might need to hire a new coach for the first time since the 2014 offseason, they have no obvious roster pathway toward competing with the likes of Oklahoma City and San Antonio (or even Denver and Minnesota) next season.

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Antony Slater: One of the main things within this that has been told to me by multiple people that is the injuries to Jimmy Butler and Moses Moody shifted that even more with an understanding of your starting wings are going to miss at least half maybe more of next season. Tim Bontemps: If you're being charitable, Jimmy Butler will be back in probably around January 1st, right? That's an accelerated timeline. Now, look, Jimmy's crazy. If you tell me he comes back sooner, sure, but like you're also talking about a guy who's past 35 now, coming back from a torn ACL, right? Draymond Green's a year older, Steph Curry's a year older. We just saw Steph Curry hobbling through this game Friday night in Phoenix, like not able to really move by the end of it. I was going to have a summer to get himself healthy now, but that is the reasonable thing to think about a team led by a trio of guys who are on the wrong side of the age curve. And with Jimmy and Steph and Draymond on the books, I want to say that's 80% of the salary cap in three guys. It's not like they can go out and snap their fingers and just add players either.

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Draymond Green: With Jimmy Butler getting hurt, it’s really thrown a monkey wrench into things. Now it’s like, what is the run? What is the timetable on things? — I look at it through the same lens you all look at it. It’s like man, how does it workout? That’s where I think things are so uncertain. There’s so many uncertainty to where we had this 3 year window and now, I don’t know…. We’ve never been in this position but feels like we’ll be in a position where you don’t get the time to see things play out. What happens with the 3 year run now? Who knows. We shall see.

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Well, it was his Warriors teammate, the one and only Steph Curry, who got Butler this time. Back when the sharpshooter entered his own sneaker free agency and had the entire league wondering what kicks he’d be rocking on any given night, Curry stunned Butler when wearing a pair from his signature line with Li-Ning during a game. “I think the first time I wore a shoe other than my own in an actual game, which was the [Li-Ning Jimmy Butler JB4 “Dark Knight”],” Curry said on his YouTube channel when asked about which pair of sneakers he wore that surprised people the most. “Those, even my own teammates, nobody knew I was actually going to wear another shoe outside of mine until literally right when we went to the starting lineups, and we were in the circle. “We do like this little dance, and everybody's getting hype, and then (ex-Golden State fan favorite Buddy Hield) pointed down and is like, ‘Oh, look at–,’ and then Jimmy looked down; he lost his mind because he didn't even know, because everybody's kind of in their own mode, getting ready for the game. I'll remember that moment for the rest of my life, just because it was kind of from a teammate-to-teammate perspective of being able to show love."

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Anthony Slater: Steve Kerr: “Jimmy’s injury changed everything.”

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Butler believes he will return at some point next season but doesn’t know exactly when. Since before February’s trade deadline, the Warriors, according to a league source, have made it clear to Butler that he is part of their plans. But as the summer plays out, that will likely be tested as the Warriors try to improve their roster. Are they willing to wait for Butler’s rehab? Do they trust he will be close to the same player whenever he returns?

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