In today's era of inflated scores, Jimmy Butler still averages about 20 points per game, such as 19.9 points in 20 years, 21.5 points in 21 years, 21.4 points in 22 years and 20.8 points this year, but in the playoffs, Butler jumped to 27.4 points and 26.9 points, including 20 years and 23 years to lead the team to the finals twice, including the 22-23 season also staged the Black Eight Miracle, and then the Bulls are mired in the quagmire, and the 76ers always lack tough attributes in the playoffs. The Timberwolves have only seen a glimmer of hope since the rebuild, so the question is, the Bulls, Timberwolves, and 76ers all had Butler, why did they all let Butler leave in the end?
Butler was traded by the Bulls in 2017 for a reason: conflict with head coach Hojborg!
Jimmy Butler entered the league with the 30th pick in the first round in 2011, and averaged only 2.6 points and 1.3 rebounds per game in 42 games in his first year as a rookie, but Rose was injured the next year and Butler became the biggest beneficiary, averaging 13.1 points per game in the 13-14 season, and then soaring to 20 points in the 14-15 season and being selected as an All-Star and winning the Most Improved Player Award, that is, in the summer of that year, the Bulls gave Butler a five-year 95 million salary, and then the Bulls sent Rose away and made Butler the team's number one core.
Rose's injury gave Butler a chance to rise
In 2016, Pau Gasol left the Bulls to join the Spurs, and in order to make up for the loss, the Bulls successively brought in Wade and Rajon Rondo, but the chemistry of the three can only be regarded as average, and in the 17 playoffs, the Bulls lost 2:4 to the Celtics led by Thomas Jr.
The contradiction between Butler and the Bulls has been a long time, in 2014, the Bulls proposed a 4-year 40 million contract extension in advance and was rejected by Butler, and then in the 14-15 season Butler broke out and the Bulls had to pay a price of 95 million for 5 years, but the Bulls have never recognized Butler's status as a top salary star, and at the 2016 trade deadline, the Bulls tried to trade Oladipo with Butler, and then in the summer of 16, Butler was put on the shelf by the Bulls and was widely talked about by many management in the league, and then after losing to the Hawks in 17, Butler was sent off the bench for insulting the head coach, and then the conflict between Butler and the head coach broke out, and head coach Hojberg publicly claimed that Butler was a locker room cancer, and the Bulls management sided with the head coach when the two sides were completely broken, and finally Butler was traded to the Timberwolves for LaVine, Dunn and the No. 7 pick in the first round, and then Rondo joined the Pelicans, Wade jumped out of the contract to join the Cavaliers, and the Bulls' short-lived Big Three combination came to an end.
All three are ball-handlers, but they have a big defensive advantage
In 2018, Butler was traded by the Timberwolves for the reason: conflict with Towns and Wiggins!
Butler played under Thibodeau for the first four years of his rookie, and then left the Bulls for the Timberwolves in 15 years, and in 2017, after the Bulls released the news, Thibodeau immediately used LaVine, Dunn and a first-round pick to recruit Butler, and in his vision Butler, Towns, Wiggins The trio will definitely take off.
The beginning was indeed as Thibodeau expected, the 17-18 season before Butler's injury before the Timberwolves once rushed to the third place in the West, this year the Timberwolves also entered the playoffs again after 13 years, but behind the results is Butler and the double champion repeatedly clashed, first of all, Butler was incompatible with Towns and Wiggins in terms of personality, after the game, the double champion took the lead in backpacking away, and Butler would always train to the end, and secondly, Butler always regarded himself as a leader on the court and repeatedly blamed the rest of his teammates, and then during the training camp, Butler led the bench to win the starter and taunted on the spot。
Butler and Don Swickins are clearly not all the way
Of course, the most important reason is the contract renewal issue, the 18-year Timberwolves took the lead in renewing the contract with Towns for 5 years and $158 million, and Wiggins is also about to face a contract renewal, so the Timberwolves only gave Butler a 4-year $100 million contract renewal offer under the tight salary, this difference naturally made Butler dissatisfied, and the training camp led the bench to blow up the double championship in October of this year, but the Timberwolves did not re-recognize Butler's value, and finally even his mentor Thibodeau took the initiative to persuade Butler to reduce his salary.
In the end, the two sides parted, and on November 11, 2018, the Timberwolves and the Heat reached a deal, and the Timberwolves sent Butler from the Heat in exchange for Covington, Sharic, Bayless, and a 2022 second-round pick.
Thibodeau failed to stick to Butler's side
Butler was traded by the 76ers in 2019 for a reason: conflict with head coach Brett Brown!
Brett Brown has been coaching the Philadelphia 76ers since 2013, and Butler only joined halfway after the start of the 18-19 season, and Butler was more arranged by Brown to play without the ball in the absence of training camp run-in, so throughout the regular season Butler was communicating with Brown in the hope of playing with the ball, Brown has not agreed, and then it was not until the semifinals when Embiid and Simmons were dumb that Brown temporarily arranged Butler to play with the ball, and finally Butler had the best 22-point data, and Embiid's 17.6-point shooting rate was only 37%, Simmons averaged 11.6 points and 4.9 assists per game, and Embiid and Simmons also strongly expressed dissatisfaction after the loss.
I don't know how good he is until I lose it
Before Butler renewes his contract, the team must consider Embiid and Simmons' opinions, but Simmons strongly disagreed, and the head coach also told Butler that Embiid and Simmons will still be the core in the future, so Butler's departure is a foregone conclusion.
Finally, in the summer of 2019, Philadelphia first signed Tobias Harris for five years and $180 million, and then traded Butler for four years and $142 million to the Heat, and Philadelphia exchanged for Josh Richardson, who only averaged 16.6 points per game.