Article: ‘And just like that, clock ticking on Heat, Pat Riley, Jimmy Butler’
Butler’s representation has made it clear that the Heat will be hearing from them at 12:01 a.m. on July 7, with the request for the maximum two-year, $112.9 million extension that will take Butler past his 36th birthday.
With a seed seemingly planted elsewhere, it appears nothing less will suffice.
Yes, Riley can stand his ground, ground he is afforded by Butler’s extension window remaining open through next season.
But this is a players’ league, where the leverage tilts decidedly in favor of labor.
It also is a tampering league, when outside parties have a way of making their intentions known through surrogate means.
by lopea182
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Bye bye Butler
Just give him the fucking money Pat. I don’t want another Heat legend walking away because of money, to our conference rival to say the least. I’m honestly more content with riding or die with Jimmy despite his age than letting him go in a trade. It’s not like trading him would make us a better team anyways, he’s still our best player. Mfers in other threads were acting like they’re content with trading Jimmy, I honestly wanna know what the fuck they’re smoking. You think we’d get Maxey in a trade?, cuz we’re not lol. And even if we somehow did, it’s even arguable whether we’d be better off with Maxey than Butler. Maaaybe in the long term, but I say hell no for right now.
This team was going fucking nowhere before Jimmy came here. Remember 18-19 season? Rosters filled with terrible contracts like Dion, James Johnson, Hassan Whiteside. Couldn’t even make the damn playoffs. Then Jimmy came in here, completely changed the trajectory of this team to the Finals, and pretty much single handedly carried our offense in all of our playoffs runs. Go back and watch those fucking games again if you wanna argue otherwise. Every god damn play starts with Jimmy. Give me one player other than Goran in 2020 who were able to provide a consistent scoring help to Jimmy during his tenure here. That’s right, nobody. Even Luka couldn’t get anything done before Kyrie finally arrived.
We have so many other bad and expendable contracts on our payroll and yet we’re contemplating whether to give our best player the money or not. Shit is ridiculous to me. Jimmy is not the problem. The rest of the roster is (except Bam of course). Everybody but Jimmy, Bam and Spo can leave this team and I couldn’t care fucking less. This ain’t the PJ Tucker-to-Philly-for-10M-per-year situation, it’s Jimmy fucking Butler. Y’all seriously need to wake the fuck up.
How do we always manage to have such stressful off seasons yet nothing interesting ever happens
Speaking of seed–how about some regular season effort to enhance our seeding?
Tell me this shit is fake, I literally said in my head last night. “Watch their be a meeting come July at Jimmy’s request with Pat Riley”
You really give him the money Pat, we can’t let Jimmy get away like Dwade. Or you tell Butler, that we’re going to get Spida. And we’re gonna win the championship, and better pray to God he’s like bet and he’s OK with getting paid next offseason. That’s the only 2 options you have.
We were literally a fucking lottery team, before Jimmy came here. And he made us the scariest team in the easr, and he made what Heat basketball was embodied and supposed to be about. I wanna keep this mf train rolling.
Do yourself a favor and just look at his game by game results in last years final’s run.
I don’t know who in the building is convinced that Jimmy isn’t worth signing to the max but they’re probably the same person who thinks Herro is about to level up.
It’s a fair deal. He’s a top 5 (playoff) player when he’s not injured. The cap is just going to keep going up and we don’t have any other contracts to prioritize.
The 76ers won’t be able to offer Jimmy a max next offseason, they (since Maxey’s max extension will kick in this season) only have the cap space this offseason, so Butler really doesn’t have the leverage per se.
Pay Jimmy
Bye
I hope Jimmy doesn’t leave, I don’t really want to be a Philly fan
Yeah because Pat loves ultimatums 🙄
I’m torn because I love Jimmy and want him to retire a Heat, but but he’s turning 35 this year and a two year max extension takes him to 37. Jimmy already has a player option so he’s here till 36, so we’re basically paying for another year.
I think if you can get Spida or Pascal or someone who’s another scoring option, then you sign the extension. If it’s not panning out, then I think you bite the bullet and trade Jimbo and let the youngins develop.
Let him go man. Start the next generation. It was a successful run but all things gotta end. We need to get more dynamic and surround Bam with 4 shooters.
It’s one additional year. For the love of god, sign him. We can’t do what we did to Wade with the very next star we managed to sign when it’s already hard for Miami to get assets.
Despite some nice additions the team’s made over the years, there’s still some lingering damage from the Heatles era in terms of trade assets that’s been dragging the team down. Getting trade and signs isn’t easy with teams being scared of doing business because they don’t want to get fleeced.
Miami’s strong suit is attracting FAs, and getting end of contract players to force a trade. But if we keep shitting on players like Wade and Jimmy when push comes to shove, it’s gonna get rough for Miami.
Unless Jimmy really wants to go to Philli and a trade is forced, you just resign him to that year. Of course he wants that security, he and everybody knows his body is hitting the limit. If we can’t win during that time, fine, so be it, but losing Butler is DEFINITELY not going to get us a chip. If we can still stay competitive, we’ll have Bam’s entire prime, hopefully a grown Jovic, and others to build from.
I don’t want to be in the dimension, where Jimmy is going to shoot a game 7 fadeaway logo shot with nothing but net in a phily jersey and yelling « Tyler Herro over me?! »
I really don’t
Bro, if Pat didn’t take care of Wade, I’m not holding my breath for Jimbo. Hopefully, if we end up losing Jimmy, it’s via trade and not just letting him walk for nothing.
We will give him the money
I bet Philly is doing this to drive Butler’s price up and fuck us.
Just give him the money man. It’s not like there’s even anybody available right now to trade him for that would make this team immediately better. Just go all in on Jimmy and Bam for the remaining time we got and go from there.
I don’t think this is as big a issue as the media and the fan base is trying to make it out to be. Butler is under contract for 2 years with the 2nd year being a player option for $52.4 million. This extension will replace that second year option and add 1 year with an $8 million increase. While I think the Heat are trying to use this to motivate Butler and the 76ers are trying to use it for drive a wedge between butler and the Heat, the value of butler to the bottom line of the heat regardless of winning is more than that. It doesn’t even make business sense to not extend him at the max and keep in him Miami.
Another one bites the dust! Let’s run it back with only G-League players next year 🤡
When Jimmy signed with Heat most people were saying he decided to retire, Miami looked that bad. He took that team to the finals and assuming he’s healthy, would anyone be that surprised if he did it again next year? It’s insane not wanting to pay him an extra year, dude doesnt even want a full max.
Just pay him. The cap will be raised in 2 years anyway where we won’t be in a terrible spot
Pay Him and retire his number when he stops
All deserved!
Don’t want another Wade issue from this team.
If this happens again, Stars will likely avoid the HEAT.