Jimmy Butler Trade Stalled Amid NBA Market Uncertainties

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00:00Well, frankly, I don't care what Jimmy Butler wants.

00:04I actually am from the side of the river that says, you know what?

00:08I don't care what you want, need, where you want to go, all your nonsense.

00:13Not only do I not want to hear it anymore from him, I think he was throwing games, throwing

00:20balls away, shooting air balls, acting like a tool, behaving like a child.

00:27All of his demands and nonsense and back and forth with Riley.

00:32And you know, what's funny is that nothing has progressed.

00:36I've been hearing about this guy getting traded now for a month and nothing's happened.

00:40And you know what?

00:41I did a special today, an hour shoot on Elgin Baylor, and I talked about his brilliant career

00:46from high school in D.C. to Idaho to Seattle to the Lakers in Minneapolis to L.A. and to

00:55greatness and even running the Clippers and serving in the Army.

01:00And I talked about this guy not playing for two months and then playing six straight games,

01:05winning all six and averaging thirty eight and twenty two and a real baller.

01:10And then I got to deal with these prima donnas now in this day and age that never play.

01:16They get paid two hundred million dollars.

01:18I mean, honestly, we don't recognize the greatness of the past while we sit around and deal with

01:23this bullshack.

01:24Oh, by the way, Elgin might be maybe one of the most underrated former superstars, like

01:30he was one of the first guys to play above the rim, like nobody was playing above the

01:34rim when Elgin was playing above the rim back in the 60s.

01:37And I think he's dramatically underrated as a as a I mean, he's a Hall of Famer, but I

01:42think underrated as an all time great look, you were spot on about Butler, by the way,

01:49in this sense, particularly this sense, there is no market for him.

01:54There is there is one team that wants him and they can't figure out how to get him because

01:58they got to move Bradley Beal and Bradley Beal is the one guy who has a worse trade

02:03value than Jimmy Butler right now.

02:06The Pelicans have talked about it.

02:08The Warriors came up.

02:09But I was told by a source like watch the Warriors to go after Zach Levine like they

02:14need to they want to boost their offense and Zach's been playing great this year.

02:18That seems more likely and more the direction they're headed than Butler.

02:22They're just look, it's not like Butler's agent isn't trying.

02:26There's no demand for Jimmy Butler because they're not sure what kind of disruption he

02:30might be down the line.

02:32And nobody wants to pay him 100 million dollars for a couple of years after this one, which

02:35is what he wants.