ROballer wrote:I agree his treatment of Miami has been egregious, even worse than VC back in the day or Harden on the Nets. Even if he wants out, there's no excuse for that.Tim_Hardawayy wrote:ROballer wrote:Who the **** are you to say who should or shouldn't sign AN EXTENSION with a team?
We're back on the plantation now?
Nowhere does it say Jimmy won't play for the team he's traded to.
He just won't sign an extension, which he's perfectly entitled to do, since it's his career.
Now if teams don't like that and end talks like the Warriors did, it's understandable and perfectly fine.
But it's also fine for Butler to choose where he wants to sign a prolonging of his contractual obligations. Let's not be hypocritical dumb jocks here.
It’s fine for teams to only want to trade for him if he’ll sign an extension, and it’s fine for Jimmy to not want to commit to that. Fully agreed.
The problem is he is refusing to give full effort and play for the team he is under contract with, and demanding to be traded while also having those other demands. In that scenario absolutely the contract should be voided, he’s not honoring it.
If he would show up and do his job while requesting to be traded, then there’s no problem. He is failing to do that. And no the suspensions aren’t the reason he’s not showing up, that started before all that. There was a game earlier this season he missed where he claimed to be ill and it got leaked he was actually partying at a club that night. It’s unprofessional.
That being said, even the OP doesn't have the slightest basic skills of reading comprehension.
The point of the thread and the tweet is his unwillingness to sign an extension.
Nowhere does it says or is it implied by Jimmy's camp that he won't play for his new team because he wants a certain destination only.
It's just maybe a rental. That's it.
Teams may go for it or not. Their choice.
Where he ends up longterm is his choice.
See Kawhi and the Raptors
OK, but you're ignoring the other half of the equation, which is people blaming Miami for not submitting to Jimmy's trade request. If Jimmy is that insistent on being traded, he will make it copacetic for the teams inquiring in order to facilitate that happening. If he's doing the opposite of that, while also tanking his effort on the floor and missing games for partying in clubs, how on earth can Miami be faulted for any of this? He is doing exactly what Damian Lillard did, and actually far worse since Dame didn't tank games for Portland, except in this case his agent wasn't stupid enough to specify the one team he would be willing to go to (even though we ALL know its Phoenix) so he's essentially getting away with it so far.
Well, I say "getting away with it" in the sense the league hasn't stepped in. He still hasn't gotten what he wanted, and probably ensured he will make less money than what he would have gotten before he started this circus, so it probably isn't a winning strategy for him.
