shrink wrote:Ok - maybe professional is the wrong word for Jimmy.
But Butler blew up a practice, and missed only three games. Ben Simmons is exponentially more unprofessional.
Splitting hairs in my opinion.
Butler single handedly nuked a team full of personalities that had done nothing but cater to his madness and bloke smoke up his ass for a year, going so far as to apparently demand the team extend his contract in a way that was impossible to carry out without blowing up the roster. He then ran to the press and has spent the better part of the last 3 years of his career undermining and sniping at KAT, effectively spinning a narrative about him that has been a yoke on KAT's shoulders ever since, very professional. Let's not forget that he also had issues in Chicago and Philadelphia, Miami is basically the only team where he's avoided creating any fractures or controversy, I suspect because everything is rosy and they're winning.
Simmons was more or less fine in Philadelphia until his running mate and coach essentially decided to publicly blame him for a series loss where both of those guys had some blame to shoulder, after Simmons had silently keep the team running for years when Embiid would take his regular holidays.
I don't think he's 'exponentially' more unprofessional than a guy who's behaved in the way Butler has over the last 5ish years.
Edit: Just wanted to make it clear given that reading this back it almost seems like an endorsement of Simmons in comparison, and thats not what I'm trying to get at here, as I think Ben's handling of the situation has indeed been very unprofessional. I just feel like Butler's numerous incidents of unprofessional behaviour weren't being fairly represented
