Jimmy Butler once told JJ Redick a startling secret about 2019 blockbuster trade saga - Source: Imagn
Before reaching the NBA Finals twice with the Miami Heat, Jimmy Butler endured a startling saga with the Minnesota Timberwolves. In 2018, on "The JJ Redick Podcast," Butler opened up about the events leading up to his trade from Minnesota.
Butler divulged the details of an exchange with the Timberwolves' management with Redick, his former teammate with the Philadelphia 76ers and now the coach of the LA Lakers:
“It’s not really heated [with Wolves management]. We’re literally just talking, and then somebody says, ‘You’re gonna practice.’ Now, first of all, I have a for-real problem with authority. When somebody’s telling me what to do as a grown man, I have a problem with it. So now you done lit the match, but ain’t nothin’ on fire yet. You just lit the match." (22:35)
