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Jimmy Butler Suspended 7 Games by the Miami Heat | NBA GameTime · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: The team is now responded. He is officially suspended for
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  Speaker 1: seven games for quote multiple instances of conduct detrimental to
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  Speaker 1: the team. Now this comes, guys, just eight days after
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  Speaker 1: pat Riley announced that they are not trading Jimmy Butler.
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  Speaker 1: The team is now saying that they're open for business
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  Speaker 1: from all offers. Coach, I just want to get your
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  Speaker 1: initial thoughts because this news just came out about fifteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty minutes ago.
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  Speaker 2: It's tough. I feel for the Miami Heat and players
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  Speaker 2: in that organization because Jimmy seems to do this everywhere
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  Speaker 2: he goes. He'll go, he'll have a great run for two, three,
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  Speaker 2: four years, and then all of a sudden, something will
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  Speaker 2: happen or something is said that he don't agree with.
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  Speaker 2: And Jimmy seems like the type person he just can't
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  Speaker 2: let stuff slide off his back. Yeah, he just can't
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  Speaker 2: let it go. It's like he's like that kid. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we're passing licks. He got to get the last lick. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: he's got to get the last word. And he's in
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  Speaker 2: a tough situation, and Miam's in a tough situation because Zeeke,
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  Speaker 2: you know this. You've been a general manager, you got
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  Speaker 2: an agent, superstar that wants an extension. He see all
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  Speaker 2: these money, Paul George, God, his money's being passed around.
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  Speaker 2: But yet he's been missing games. And in Miami culture,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta be available and you got to play to
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  Speaker 2: a certain standard. And when he didn't do that, Miami
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  Speaker 2: didn't offer him an extension. And so now he's upset.
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  Speaker 2: And to me, it's one thing going to office, not
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  Speaker 2: going to do a sit down with pat Riley ask
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  Speaker 2: for a trade. But what he's doing now to his
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  Speaker 2: teammate Cze. I may be mad at the coach, I
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  Speaker 2: may be mad at the on in the GM, but
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  Speaker 2: one thing I'm never gonna do I cannot do. I
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  Speaker 2: can't quit on y'all, y'all my teammates. I just can't.
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  Speaker 2: We don't been through too much. We hang out too much,
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  Speaker 2: on guard Parent, on this, on that. We're in each
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  Speaker 2: other houses. We're friends, we're brothers. No matter what's going
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  Speaker 2: on with me, I can't quit on y'all. And that's
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  Speaker 2: the thing that's disturbing for me. For Jimmy, I can
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  Speaker 2: understand being upset with the organization, we've all been there,
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  Speaker 2: but being upset and quit on your teammates who you
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  Speaker 2: have called your brothers can't do it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all that that you just laid out, it is true.
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  Speaker 3: So at the end of the day, you know, when
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  Speaker 3: trust is broken between the player and the organization, And
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  Speaker 3: that's where we're at now, right, There's no trust between management,
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  Speaker 3: there's no trust between players. And when that trust is broken, Sam,
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  Speaker 3: when the organization says forget you, I'm using forgets you
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  Speaker 3: instead of the real one, and that player says forget you. Right,
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  Speaker 3: you got to separate. There's no coming back when it's
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  Speaker 3: public like this, and the organization has basically said this
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  Speaker 3: is where we stand, and the players said this is
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  Speaker 3: where we stand now. There's no halfy medium and the
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  Speaker 3: only place you can really get to is there's got
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  Speaker 3: to be a devarture. There's got to be a breakup.
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  Speaker 3: And it seems like Miami and Jimmy Butler is headed
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  Speaker 3: for a breakup.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And the team even said too that through the actions
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  Speaker 1: and statements give me has shown he no longer wants
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  Speaker 1: to be a part of the team. This is a
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  Speaker 1: tweet from Ira Wnderman, he beat writer for the last
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  Speaker 1: twenty five plus years. The length of the Butler suspension
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  Speaker 1: largely is moved, he will not be back. In such
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  Speaker 1: sanctions typically are appealed and then a compromise is reached
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  Speaker 1: on a far lower figure of anything at all through
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  Speaker 1: the appeal process with the player union. Now seven games
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  Speaker 1: takes it through January fifteenth. It's January third today. That
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  Speaker 1: gives the team about twelve days technically at this point
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  Speaker 1: to figure something out. Coach, do you think something does have?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what do you think happened?
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna get pennies on the dollar. You just saw
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  Speaker 2: what Ira said. It's a temer game suspension, but he
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  Speaker 2: won't be back. And to me, they're gonna get pennies
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  Speaker 2: on the dollar. Because if I'm gonna trade for Jimmy,
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  Speaker 2: it's two things. He's got a fifty two million dollars
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  Speaker 2: options next year, and he's done this. He's crashed and
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  Speaker 2: burned every organization that he's been with. And you see
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  Speaker 2: what he did to Tom Thibodaux in Minnesota with TIBs
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  Speaker 2: went out and got him from Chicago. He was so
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  Speaker 2: bad in Minnesota they traded them for little or nothing.
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  Speaker 2: So see, I don't know about you, man, but Mina
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  Speaker 2: gonna get pennies on the dollar. This is not gonna
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  Speaker 2: work out well for the Miami Heat. They may work
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  Speaker 2: out well for Jimmy, but not for the Heat well.
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  Speaker 3: I think because of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, players
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  Speaker 3: who are at this age with this salary, it's extremely
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  Speaker 3: difficult to move them, almost impossible. And this is what
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  Speaker 3: the new CBA has done to the older players who
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  Speaker 3: are making money and they want that next extension, it's
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  Speaker 3: damn near impossible to get it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be really interesting to see how these
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  Speaker 1: next two weeks play out with