Jimmy Butler's Agent: "Disrespectful" to speculate on Butlers future

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Jimmy Butler's agent says to the Miami Herald that it would be disrespectful to speculate on Butler's future with the Heat.

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00:00Uh, Jimmy Butler's agent, he had some, uh, he had some quotes to Anthony Chang of the

00:05Miami Herald that talked about, uh, his extension.

00:09We talked a little bit, so about Jimmy, you know, he's like, cause Joe gave us this great

00:13story about Pat Riley getting after him at a practice and, uh, kind of similar to how

00:19he goes after Jimmy Butler, which is what Pat Riley does.

00:23You think that Pat Riley did that to D Wade, did it to Tim Hardaway, Shaq, did it to Chris

00:29Bosh, did it to LeBron, basically everybody, but Udonis Haslam that I'm aware of.

00:35Yeah.

00:36Goran Dragic just said, Pat Riley said, Hey, what the bleep are you doing?

00:40We didn't pay you here for this bleep to Goran.

00:45Pat Riley has expectations, but anyway, this was his favorite.

00:52Did you just reveal like, can we, well, Udonis said, Udonis said he didn't speak to him for

00:56two years.

00:57Well, there's that.

00:58Mind you, Udonis Haslam was not the star of the team.

01:02You know, he was always, he was always numero uno wingman.

01:07So this was, uh, this was the, uh, the report from Anthony says the expectation at this

01:14point is that Butler will pass on the extension, even if it becomes, even if it is offered

01:19according to sources and then opt out of his current contract and become a free agent next

01:23summer.

01:24So he asked Bernie Lee, Jimmy Butler's agent on the record about it.

01:31He says, Jimmy is eligible to sign an extension until June 30th.

01:34Would he consider that extension if the heat offers it between now and then Bernie, this

01:42is his quote to Anthony Chang.

01:44He says, quote, the gift about sports is to a large extent, things are absolutes and there

01:50is no need to live in hypotheticals.

01:53The absolute is the season at hand and the work that needs to be done.

01:58Jimmy went away this summer and prepared himself for the task at hand.

02:01I think we all see that speculating on what's next is irrelevant and disrespectful to the

02:08moment.

02:09And this group, one of the major things I noticed with Jimmy that has been a foundation

02:13of his success has been the creation of process and routine is locked into that process and

02:19routine and ready to attack this season with the group around him.

02:24It's a lot of words for me, dog.

02:27That is semantic Samurai.

02:30If I've ever heard one, you want to, you want to take a lead, a lesson in agent speak, you

02:34know, just, uh, just, I don't know when, when Bernie Lee has a seminar coming on up, but

02:40like, geez, Louise offended that you would ask about the looming extension.

02:47How is it irrelevant?

02:48I would like to know.

02:49I would, isn't normally having the future status of a franchise player.

02:54Isn't that not irrelevant?

02:55That's typically one of the most relevant things that a franchise wants to know is,

03:00is the star sticking around?

03:03Like it's not irrelevant.

03:05And to say disrespectful, well, okay.

03:10But then also don't be mad at reports and rumors and speculation all year because you

03:19had the opportunity to go on the record and you went with some hocus pocus dance around

03:26the answer saying it was disrespectful and irrelevant when it's very clearly not irrelevant.

03:31Now, to be fair, Jimmy has said on the record and he goes, doesn't matter about the contract.

03:37I have enough money.

03:38Everything I do now is going to get him paid anyway, which is true.

03:41He probably needs to be playing a lot of games or get to the conference finals or probably

03:48win the heat of championship to definitely solidify his next longterm deal with the heat.

03:54But I was like, I read that answer and I was like, wait a minute, two sentences before

03:59Anthony reports, according to sources that Butler would pass on extension even if offered.

04:09So now you have this chance.

04:10All right.

04:11Can we just say out loud what it is?

04:13No, we're, we're, we're into the process right now.

04:17I'm like, what?

04:18Yeah.

04:19That doesn't make sense.

04:22That is very, I guess we would have preferred for him to what directly address it and be

04:26honest.

04:27I mean, cause the honest truth is if we're talking about money, if Jimmy Butler, what

04:31I would say though, dude, here's what I would say.

04:33We're not going to go on the record with that.

04:35No comment.

04:36Oh, okay.

04:37This whole thing.

04:39It's disrespectful.

04:40It's not disrespectful.

04:41Is it irrelevant?

04:42It's very much not irrelevant.

04:45That seems to bother me.

04:47It's not irrelevant.

04:48All right.

04:49Like you can say a lot of things, but Jimmy Butler's longterm future with the heat, I

04:54would not say is an irrelevant thing to me, to the franchise, to fans, to the media.

05:00It's not irrelevant.

05:02And the thing that I get annoyed with is like, all right, then it's going to be like, well,

05:07you know, you, you guys listen to whatever rumors or rumblings are out there.

05:10I'm not saying that he's saying that particularly, but we hear this all the time, but it's all

05:13you guys.

05:14Well, all right, here you have a chance.

05:15Clear up the air.

05:16No smoke bomb.

05:17That's what he gives you.

05:19He should have just thrown a smoke bomb at Anthony Chang.

05:24Guess what?

05:25Magic.

05:26Catch me before I go.

05:29Who do you need?

05:30Okay.

05:31Dua.

05:32He's got his agent.

05:34This is Jimmy Butler's agent, Dua Lipa.

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