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Jimmy Butler Suspended Indefinitely for Walking Out of Practice | NBA GameTime · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Some news regarding Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat. It
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  Speaker 1: is breaking this evening. There's a statement on Jimmy Butler.
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  Speaker 1: The Miami Heat are suspending Jimmy without pay effectively immediately,
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  Speaker 1: for an indefinite period to last no fewer than five games.
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  Speaker 1: The suspension is due to a continued pattern of disregard
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  Speaker 1: of team rules, engaging in conduct detrimental to the team,
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  Speaker 1: and intentionally withholding services. This includes walking out of practice
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  Speaker 1: earlier today. Here's their head coach, Eric Spolstra.
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  Speaker 2: Well, with all due respect to obviously the questions that
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  Speaker 2: may come up, what do you tell your team in
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  Speaker 2: a situation like this with everything that seems to be
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  Speaker 2: happening daily? Doesn't do things need to be said as
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  Speaker 2: it constantly updates us. What the statement today?
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  Speaker 3: But no, we didn't even talk about anything today other
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  Speaker 3: than preparing for the magic I get it. You know,
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  Speaker 3: what do you guys all want?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 2: Right now?
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  Speaker 3: And I figure that's why this media room is full
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  Speaker 3: right now. We're trying to quiet you know, the noise,
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  Speaker 3: and we're just focusing on the task at hand. There's
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  Speaker 3: no better place to be than just the present moment.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Zeke this is your area of expertise. What
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  Speaker 1: do you make of this situation that has been going
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  Speaker 1: on for over a month now with Jimmy Butler and
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  Speaker 1: yet another suspension?
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  Speaker 5: You know, unfortunately, you know, this is a part of
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  Speaker 5: the NBA, right and it doesn't happen all the time,
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  Speaker 5: But there are times when a player wants to leave
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  Speaker 5: an organization. The organization and the player are not on
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  Speaker 5: the same page. But you also have a collective bargaining
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  Speaker 5: agreement that the players and the owners have agreed on
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  Speaker 5: for players to act and conduct themselves in a certain way.
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  Speaker 5: Eventually this all plays out, and it all works out.
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  Speaker 5: But unfortunately, right now we get to see it in
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  Speaker 5: real time and we get the comment and talk about it. Now,
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  Speaker 5: Who's right, Who's wrong? I don't know, but I do
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  Speaker 5: you know this Jimmy Butler, you know, has proven that
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  Speaker 5: you know, he can lead a team and take a
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  Speaker 5: team to the championship. The Miami Heat have proven over
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  Speaker 5: time that they are organizations that knows how to go
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  Speaker 5: out and find players and win championships. And at one
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  Speaker 5: point in time, this organization and this player was on
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  Speaker 5: the same page and they got to the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 5: Now that they're not on the same page. You see
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  Speaker 5: where they are. They're struggling to, you know, be in
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  Speaker 5: playoff contention, and Jimmy now is kind of trying to
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  Speaker 5: figure out what's his next move. But the important thing
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  Speaker 5: is when you get an organization and a player on
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  Speaker 5: the same page, like Jimmy Butler, beautiful things can happen,
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  Speaker 5: and when they're not on the same page, ugly things happen.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Vince, We've been asking this question for over
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  Speaker 1: a month, right, is this the last time we've seen
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler in the Miami Heat uniform? Do you think
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  Speaker 1: this now is the lot of demarcation that he'll never
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  Speaker 1: play another game in the Heat?
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  Speaker 4: I do now. I think they're understanding that he's not
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  Speaker 4: willing to comply. He's making his statement, he's trying his
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  Speaker 4: best to get moved. And I think now for the
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  Speaker 4: for the organization being that they said, no, we're not
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  Speaker 4: moving you. We feel like you said that beautiful things
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  Speaker 4: happen when we're together. We're hoping he would come around,
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  Speaker 4: and now that you see that he's not coming around,
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  Speaker 4: it's time to make the best decision for your organization
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  Speaker 4: and move on because it's becoming a distraction and they
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  Speaker 4: still have a chance to still be in the playoffs
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  Speaker 4: and compete. So the sooner you get rid of the
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  Speaker 4: problem or fix the problem, I feel like, the better
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  Speaker 4: you will be