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'The whole truth will come out' Jimmy Butler on His Return From Suspension After His Trade Request · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Like to come back and play for a team that
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  Speaker 1: suspended you seven games without pay, and when you know
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  Speaker 1: that they're still talking about a possible trade. What's that
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  Speaker 1: dynamic like to step back into that?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I mean, I I guess it's basketball at this point.
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  Speaker 2: I know what I'm expected to do while I'm here,
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  Speaker 2: and uh try to ged to the best of my ability.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, wherever we are, how much uncertainty was there?
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  Speaker 1: Uh playing tonight? How mu concernedty? Was there a playing back?
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  Speaker 1: Did you think you were going to play? I knew
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna play, Sue. There was a lot said
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks and then I know it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to clear everything up in one second, but I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what was the plan going forward? When you knew you
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  Speaker 1: were coming back? Was this the plan? Did you know
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  Speaker 1: you were at seven games? You were going to play tonight? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean that's that's that's what Dad told me.
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  Speaker 2: But it was a lot said by everybody except for me.
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  Speaker 1: Tell you the truth.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll let people keep talking like they know everything,
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  Speaker 2: like they have all the answers, and then as soon
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  Speaker 2: a they the whole truth will come out. But until then, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: we were cant. I mean, lot of people talking. If
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  Speaker 2: I'm here, we'll get out there and play.
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  Speaker 1: You said that is it? How hard is it to
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  Speaker 1: separate fact of the picture for you? Do you even
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  Speaker 1: bother doing different things?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, is there anything particular that there's just everything
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  Speaker 2: that's been said. Nah, I expect for people to talk
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  Speaker 2: half the reason because don't nobody ever know what I'm
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  Speaker 2: really doing. So you just make up stuff, which is fine,
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  Speaker 2: and obviously I really don't paying attention to it. But
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  Speaker 2: I got people telling me, oh, they said this, they
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  Speaker 2: said that. Insight, it's it's really all good. I don't
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  Speaker 2: I don't have to clear anything up, you know, more
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  Speaker 2: power to you keep talking?
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  Speaker 1: And what's sad we end up? You mean, last time
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  Speaker 1: we spoke to you, you said you didn't know if you'd
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  Speaker 1: be able to find your jewel? You keep playing here?
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  Speaker 1: Has anything changed in the interim and do you think
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  Speaker 1: coming back and getting back out on the court that
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  Speaker 1: could potentially change or are you still have the same
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  Speaker 1: feeling that he told us two weeks ago. I was
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  Speaker 1: told to say no comment, so no comment. Would like
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  Speaker 1: to actually go out, I know, but in a game
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  Speaker 1: tonight it felt good. Yeah, No, actually who I played.
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  Speaker 2: If it felt good to get out there and compete,
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  Speaker 2: uh and actually run around with these guys. You know,
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  Speaker 2: as much as everybody may think, I don't got a
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  Speaker 2: problem with these guys.
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  Speaker 1: These guys are cool.
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  Speaker 2: Than my friends. Some of them tapped in. Some of
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  Speaker 2: y'all didn't. Don't think I don't know that. Uh my
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  Speaker 2: beef out with them and never will be, never has been.
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  Speaker 1: But it did feel good to get out there.
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  Speaker 2: In person has tried to make levity of this situation,
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  Speaker 2: and you actually liked at least one of the Instagram posts.
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  Speaker 1: Is it to try to laugh a middle right now?
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  Speaker 2: I laugh a lot and look, I tell you mine,
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  Speaker 2: my happiness off the quarter is at an all time high.
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  Speaker 2: I got to I got the babies, and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of dominoes and coffee is involved.
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  Speaker 1: And I like cav uh but he.
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  Speaker 2: Not more petty than I am. And he's given me,
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  Speaker 2: He's giving me a run for my money.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how is it gonna be the lex a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks? Whatever this is this time period? Is
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  Speaker 1: is it fixable? I mean, are you gonna do? Is
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  Speaker 1: this gonna do something? Every night? Is gonna be the
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  Speaker 1: same thing about questions, Okay, what's it feel like, what's
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  Speaker 1: going on in the background, And from your perspective, you
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  Speaker 1: are the one to ask the questions. I just answer them.
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  Speaker 1: So whatever the questions, is it fixing the situation the
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  Speaker 1: way it is now? And no comment. Whose idea was
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  Speaker 1: the bulls?
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  Speaker 2: The three five, Every hal, every hall did this. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead because I like you. If you're still here
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  Speaker 2: in February seven.
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  Speaker 1: February seven, we're playing a lot of what is Saly?
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  Speaker 1: We are? I'm a hoop. That's it.