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Inside the NBA Crew Talks Jimmy Butler's Situation in Miami: 'It's all about money' · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Not only he ain't doing nothing, but trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out a destination for Jimmy Butler.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they ain't gonna they're gonna rally and play well.
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  Speaker 1: They lou they got they gonna get rid of the
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  Speaker 1: best player.
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  Speaker 2: Uh one, four ninety eight. It's time for him to
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  Speaker 2: go because he don't want to be there, and they're
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  Speaker 2: exploring trade options. Yeahs off that suspension. It's a really
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  Speaker 2: bad situation though, or Anye, Yeah, they need I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you need to get that thing done. You're breaking now
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  Speaker 2: you're sitting here. Yep. But at this stage of the sun,
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know if you can do the trade.
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  Speaker 1: If you're another NBA team, we shall see, Yeah, because
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  Speaker 1: you can't because he can be a free agent. What
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  Speaker 1: do you give up a guy who can be a
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  Speaker 1: free agent? He has an option, So what do you
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  Speaker 1: give up? Because if he don't want to be there,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna opt out of his contract.
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  Speaker 2: You're not gonna opt out of that fifty five unless
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  Speaker 2: he's unless somebody's telling them they're gonna give what he wants. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I would I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even trade for him unless he gave me
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  Speaker 1: a contract extension.
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  Speaker 2: Because I can't take that.
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  Speaker 1: Chance that he's gonna leave after one year, because you
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to give up the goods. Jimmy Butler is
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  Speaker 1: a terrific player. You're not gonna get him for free.
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  Speaker 1: But if I'm on rent him for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the season and he opted out of my contract, I'm done.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 3: This is not He's not the first player that we
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  Speaker 3: seen this happened to, maybe the suspension part, but in
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  Speaker 3: there last year, an aging but still relevant superstar or
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  Speaker 3: star player. And we've seen it happen before. Pat Raley
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  Speaker 3: has been through it before as well. He let Dwayne
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  Speaker 3: Wade go. You know, I just say this, there's a
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  Speaker 3: way to for this to happen. I'm just I just
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  Speaker 3: don't like the fact that Jimmy Butler has always been
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  Speaker 3: the guy who says, if you don't come to practice
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  Speaker 3: and play hard, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna call you out.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't come to the games and play hard,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna call you out. And now when he's in
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  Speaker 3: this position and then he's getting suspended because he feels
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  Speaker 3: like he doesn't want to he doesn't have the energy
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  Speaker 3: to play hard, when that has been his calling card.
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  Speaker 3: I remember the first contract that he got.
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  Speaker 2: Play hard, play harder, just say he doesn't have joy
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  Speaker 2: in no, first of all, this is totally joy makes
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  Speaker 2: you play hard. Shopping man is just.
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  Speaker 1: Off the podcast. I don't I'm sorry, I apologize. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to hear all that stuff. This is all
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  Speaker 1: about money, of course, this so so don't tell me.
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  Speaker 2: He locked no joy all this.
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  Speaker 1: He wants a long term contract. He's got enough to
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  Speaker 1: say contract his joy is going.
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  Speaker 2: You're right, so you about you gonna make fifty five
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  Speaker 2: million dollars next year. Listen, listen. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: bums making similar. It's not the point. You have a contract, Shack.
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  Speaker 2: You don't get to say unless you extend me. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just gonna quit playing. You never say he's no quit playing,
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  Speaker 2: don't do. He said he ain't got joy any more.
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  Speaker 2: But I bet he gets joy off. He gave him
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  Speaker 2: three more years, Jimmy, butling quit.
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  Speaker 3: You can't even put that's my point. But when you say,
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  Speaker 3: put on the same quin. But my point is, listen,
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  Speaker 3: you cannot. I don't think he should have said joy.
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  Speaker 3: If the truth is, if it is, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if it is or not. If it's just hey, Listen,
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  Speaker 3: I deserve a better contract. I'm in my going into
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  Speaker 3: my last year. I deserve that. If y'all don't want
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  Speaker 3: to give me that, y'all can move me. That is
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  Speaker 3: I would. I could look at that and take it
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  Speaker 3: for fist off. But saying that's what he said, No,
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  Speaker 3: he said he didn't have joy, And I remember this
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  Speaker 3: is the same guy who slept in the gym before
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  Speaker 3: he got his big contract.
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  Speaker 2: I remember those thing like my joy because he don't
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  Speaker 2: have to.
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  Speaker 3: He just wants money that you want to you want
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  Speaker 3: to extension if that's the see And.
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  Speaker 1: You know what bothers me about this, I don't understand
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  Speaker 1: why we as players, we've all been fairly compensated in
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  Speaker 1: our career, all of us. The notion that once you'll
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  Speaker 1: passed your prime, they got to keep paying you top dollar.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's right. They have paid him. He's
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  Speaker 1: making fifty million dollars a year. Jimmy's belt a hell
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  Speaker 1: of a player. He makes, he's been making fifty million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: The notion that he's on thet paid plaster playing prime. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they had a con tracked, but he doesn't have one.
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  Speaker 1: And if they're not going to pay him.
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  Speaker 3: It's not it's not that he doesn't want it, it's
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  Speaker 3: how he's going about it. If that's the case, if
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  Speaker 3: it's true what he's saying, that is not the way
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  Speaker 3: you go about it. You're star playing. I want a
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  Speaker 3: better contract and I deserve it if you don't move me.
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  Speaker 3: The final by the way, tonight No.
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  Speaker 2: No. One, fourteen ninety eight,