Jimmy Butler Moves to Golden State in a High-Profile Trade

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00:00it had been brewing for a long time basically the last six seven weeks in south florida

00:05jimmy butler unhappy with miami demanding a trade sitting out missing flights suspended

00:12basically for the last month and a half in miami is finally on the move jimmy butler traded last

00:20night to the golden state warriors and not just traded but signing a new extension with the dubs

00:27a two-year 121 million dollar deal a five-team trade in essence the utah jazz helping play

00:36facilitator again headed back to south beach that would be andrew wiggins and a first round

00:44per kid pick so that was the heats hall in this deal but finally after a long and dramatic battle

00:52jimmy butler has made his way out he heads the golden state

00:58yeah and it's uh listen good good news for golden state who let's face it the whole schroeder uh

01:06debacle here not working out all that well he has been terrible and is not a very good fit

01:11for what the golden state warriors uh like to do as a team offensively jimmy butler

01:17he's a shot creator that they can rely upon more so than andrew wiggins was uh and jimmy butler's

01:26ability to be able to get to the free throw line cannot also be discounted uh for golden state

01:32they don't do that an awful lot either so i do think it's a great win for golden state uh now

01:39and maybe the best part about this for golden state then is they didn't have to give up any

01:45of their young players uh they didn't have to uh go and uh go deep here it cost them really

01:52wiggins who is half the player that jimmy butler is on every statistical front let's be realistic

01:59doesn't have the same uh doesn't have the same kind of presence on the court that jimmy butler

02:05is in crunch time and who did they have to give up in order to do it a couple of draft picks i

02:10mean they they still have all their young pieces on the team that's a huge win for the golden state

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