Jimmy Butler Unbothered With Trade Rumors Or Perception
The Chicago Bulls have overhauled their roster over the offseason with Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah and Pau Gasol leaving. But Jimmy Butler insists it wasn't a decision he had an influence over.
“That has nothing to do with me,’’ Butler said on Thursday. “I don’t move guys. Just like I always say – people are going to think what they want to think.’’
The Bulls also reportedly considered trading away Butler in a package that would have brought back Kris Dunn.
“It’s not their job to report anything to me,’’ Butler said of general manager Gar Forman and VP of basketball operations John Paxson. “I’m a big boy. I don’t need you to tell me, ‘No, you’re not going to be traded.’ I know it’s a business and if it happens it happens, but I’m here.
“I don’t pay attention to it. I was in the gym working out during the draft. My phone was blowing up, but what can I do? I can go in the office and be like, ‘Hey please don’t trade me?’ If they were going to do that, that’s on them not me.’’
Yeah, wuss out in the weak East for all his career and forming not one but two super teams to get to the final certainly deserve the "best" player considerations.