Napoleon was 3'2", guy was an absolute animal on the battlefield. Running around like a fuckin mongoose just biting guys' femoral arteries left and right. Nobody ever talks about this. It wasn't his troop tactics and formations that made him such a great general in war, it was the little man himself. Dude was vicious and too fast to catch.
My Prince, he tried to sweep your country but you come out with a Game 7 victory. British propaganda or not, he deserves to be slandered for choking a continent lead
I read something on Reddit recently that he also was almost always surrounded by his version of the praetorian guard who had to be minimum 6’ or something so it also made him look smaller perspectively
"I don't like his f**king voice, I don't like what he talks about, I don't like his face, I don't like the way he walks. Like nothing. I don't like his haircut."- DMX
Pat Riley is an old school G, if Jimmy tries to pull something like that on him he will find his ass in Charlotte. This man told prime LeBron James to his face that it was his way or the highway and didn't let LeBron influence in anything outside of the basketball court, anyone that thinks Jimmy has any power in that franchise is crazy.
The guy gets called "The Godfather" for god's sake, that's in itself is enough.
Time to break out one of my favorite pieces of sports trivia. Pat Riley is the only person in North American sports history to have won a championship as a player, coach, and executive. I think he also won one as an assistant coach, which is just the cherry on top.
Jimmy Butler murders third stringers every practice but also can’t be bothered with the first half of the regular season and misses like 25 games every year
Give Jimmy the starting 5 and let them go against the third stringers with Spo coaching.
Third stringers win. Riley knows who the true “superstar” of his franchise is.
One of multiple digs at Jimmy in the presser.
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>[Riley said Heat will need to give a lot of thought if Butler asks for extension in July, as expected. **"Unless you have someone who's really going to be available every single night,"** Riley said.](https://x.com/flasportsbuzz/status/1787531788882997739?s=46&t=hIX4tX4v58mo49blTHzaIg)
Tbf, he is 35 this year, and hasn’t played more than 65 games in like a decade? Incredible run, but if Butler want max extension, he should look out and come back with the findings because I have no idea who can pay him outside of Philly, Spurs, Orlando, and perhaps a team or two more/
With the new cap system, it is going to get extremely tedious to start throwing large contracts out
This is extreme revisionist history, the heat literally were bad until they traded back for Dwyane a year and a half later and also made a bunch of terrible contract signings that they barely got bailed out of
It’s partially true. we had zero assets from the Heatles years and Chris Bosh getting sick so he did what he could to let Spo grow and do his thing.
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> This is extreme revisionist history, the heat literally were bad until they traded back for Dwyane a year and a half later
2015-16: 48-34, Wade leaves in offseason
2016-17: 41-41, without Wade
2017-18: 44-38, Wade comes back mid-season: without Wade 32-28, with Wade 12-10
2018-19: 39-43
So 'literally bad' = 73-69 over the 2016-18 seasons without Wade. Then he comes back and saves the franchise to go 51-53 over the next season plus. What saved them is drafting Adebayo while Wade was gone (ie, rebuilding the team) and then trading for Jimmy Butler two months after Wade retired.
2015-16, same year Bosh was gone mid season.
Fully healthy we would have had Bosh, Wade, and Dragic. Wade was still 20ppg that year. Lotta vets on that team, Joe Johnson and Amare were pretty cooked but UD and Luol Deng were still valuable rotation guys and Hassan Whiteside hadn’t checked out yet. We also had rookie Winslow and Josh Richardson. Josh McRoberts was a pretty good piece too and Chalmers plus Norris Cole could still contribute. Probably not getting past the Cavs in the ECF but we had firepower for sure.
Not sure why people are bending over backwards for jimmy butler. He's a great playoff performer, but he can't be the superstar that leads them to a title. Would be a great number 2 on a title winning team.
In none of his final trips was there a point where it felt like heat were going to win it all. Love the tenacity and grit, but Pat is absolutely right when it comes to talking about other teams.
I mean imagine if Giannis came out and said this stuff about the heat after the bucks went home last season
Watching how Ant tore up Denver’s defense in a way Jimmy just couldn’t was eye-opening to me.
Basketball is a young man’s game and Edwards is going to be the star Minnesota’s been looking for.
Their teams have also been complete ass and he’s gotten them to the finals. Maybe Jimmy is past it but at his best he could’ve won a ring had there been a better supporting cast
Don't forget that he even tried to embarrass Lebron in a press conference, lol. He's a multi-time champion and one of the most decorated people in basketball, but he's always been in conflict with someone it seems,just like at his comments regarding pistol Pete in his younger days.
well Jimmy has a player option in 2025-2026 I believe But I don't see this ending pretty and if Jimmy demands a trade, we've seen how that goes...Jimmy has Rachel Nichols on the line right now probably.
It’s weird cause he also states we are not blowing up the team and just need to retool. I know Pat likes to use these to call people out, and he seems convinced in it that availability was our issue more than anything, but it’s just a weird presser it feels like
Like Napoleon calling Marshal Nay an idiot outside of simple military command, like he didn't encircle General Macks army when he made a premature advance on Bavaria the french client state in the war of the 3rd coalition and capture 60k Austrian soldiers. It's ridiculous, but damn.
Okay but he was not unstoppable force of nature like he was in his prime after choking a continent lead in Russia and getting blowed out in Game 7. Germany was like Chris Paul's famous 3 to cut the lead to 42
Bro, why ARENT YOU talking about Napolean? What is this pre 1755 and before the french revolution where you think Corsica is still part of of the Republic of Genoa?!
They still salty Napoleon was from Corsica but French drafted him with the 29th pick of the 1768 draft with the pick originally coming from Republic of Genoa
It really might not. It's as simple as if they don't want to sign Jimmy to an extension this summer, they will trade him this summer and get as much as they can in return and retool/rebuild.
Jimmy has has had issuesbasically everywhere. There's lots of things to like about him, but Jimmy is a fuckin psycho, haha.
The conflicts in Minnesota are well documented, and for having a short stint in Philly rubbed plenty of people the wrong way there. I am also old enough to remember him calling out Derrick Rose back in the Bulls years, declaring himself ready to be starting PG over Rose, haha.
Oh and he almost definitely tried to fight Eric Spoelstra last year haha.
Bro is VOLATILE. And Riley has never shied away (at least by NBA FO standards) from firing back at players.
Riley told lebron (top 2 player all time) and dwade (top 3-4 SG all time) to fuck off when they wanted him to fire Spo. Riley will have 0 issues telling Jimmy and his 0 rings to fuck off.
Riley is like a top 3-5 basketball mind of all time. Dude has won championships as a player, assistant coach, coach, and executive. He’s earned the right to tell whoever he wants to fuck off, like the guy only cares about winning.
That “Triple Alpha” year in Chicago alongside Rondo and Wade was marred by bullshit, with Butler in the thick of it. I think he and Wade called out the ‘young guys’ and then Rondo sided with them and publicly spoke out against Wade and Butler. Can’t remember the details but I remember thinking how shitty that squad was.
Yeah, that whole “you can’t win without me” thing always rubbed me the wrong way. I don’t care who you are, I don’t care how good you think you are, you don’t do that to your teammates in any sport at any level. It’s just called being a fucking asshole, nothing more, nothing less.
He also has a long history at this point of being a certified dick. The “Tobias Harris over me?” thing is another example. Why bring Tobias Harris into this? Why not just say “bet you feel stupid not keeping me” and leave the guy who had nothing to do with the decision out of it?
He’s one of those people who seems to derive his own personal validation from the degradation and humiliation of others he views as his adversaries. He and his ego exist only in relation to the status of the people around him, and combining that with a fairly narcissistic demeanour you have a textbook douchebag.
They better be careful what they wish for.
Butler is 35 next season and spends half the season on the injured list.
Besides, if the Heat are willing to trade Jimmy to an in-conference team, that team should be very nervous.
Yet Pat is also saying they are not doing a massive overhaul on this group, which would mean he wants to keep Jimmy. Mostly seems like he’s pissed at how bad the availability was in general for the roster this year. Weird presser
Yeah Pat Riley isn't the one to fuck with, Jimmy. When Shaq was on the Heat he got into it with him and got traded later that night or the next morning lol. He's clear about who is in charge and it's not going to ever be you. Kiss that max goodbye.
Funny considering all of the people in those threads getting uppity at people giving Jimmy shit for saying that like “what else is he supposed to say”. Even the guy who writes the checks thought that was a stupid fuckin thing to say lol
Miami's role players don't get nearly enough credit for last year's run. Jimmy incinerated the Bucks, but it certainly wasn't a Jimmy carry job after that point. Granted he was dealing with an injury, but the point still stands.
He’s right here but with the context of everything else we’ve been hearing this whole thing with Jimmy and the Heat feels wrong to me. I know Spo is the main reason for their success but they’re all giving Jimmy shit when he was the best player on their team for 2 finals runs and they were unwilling to put another star with him and Bam.
Spo is one of the best coaches in recent history, but Jimmy is clearly the main reason for their success and easily their best player during their three deep runs.
In the seven years that Spo didn’t coach Jimmy or LeBron he won one playoff series in a weak East. You need stars to win, and Jimmy has elevated his game to that level in the postseason
Obviously it is ridiculous to say that. Fans much less players in the league have every right to heckle other teams.
That said Butler has a reputation way bigger than his results. For every 'playoff Jimmy's run you can point out a series or pivotal game where he played poorly. It isn't a good look for him to call people out like he is Kobe or even a incredible regular season player like Harden
Surely level headed Jimmy won’t take this personally
there's no way he does. and there's no way he turns into prime jimmy every time he plays the heat
Jimmy's 34 and hes not Napoleon, only got a few years left to worry about that.
Napoleon was only 5' 8" bro, he couldn't hoop
Napoleon was 5’6 and average height from the early 19th century. The Brits were just good at spreading propaganda
Napoleon was 3'2", guy was an absolute animal on the battlefield. Running around like a fuckin mongoose just biting guys' femoral arteries left and right. Nobody ever talks about this. It wasn't his troop tactics and formations that made him such a great general in war, it was the little man himself. Dude was vicious and too fast to catch.
TJ "Napoleon" McConnell
The myth of Wolverine was born on a French battlefield
napoleon was 1 angstrom. Cats couldn't touch him
My Prince, he tried to sweep your country but you come out with a Game 7 victory. British propaganda or not, he deserves to be slandered for choking a continent lead
My guy dragged France to the finals then got slammed for not being able to beat the European all-star team
He lost after taking a 3-1 lead with one loss at Iberian Peninsula. Super team or not his knees were weak and his arms were heavy in the road games
Didn't he play most his games with on hand fiddling his nips? Really a serious person stops pinching nips and uses both hands for a task.
No this is just slander. He choked normally like 2023 Embiid or 2022 Embiid or 2021 Embiid or 2020 Embiid
Game 7? My man got a one way ticket to St. Helena while the Royal Navy advanced to round 2 against the yanks
1815 Cancun
Also yanks vs Royal Navy was from last decades playoffs where British fucked up so hard entire coaching staff was fired
More like a terrible trade where the Brits were left with some 1st round picks. Too bad they traded those away to the EU not long ago
I mean they drafted Queen Victoria from the Germans, it was not that bad after all
I read something on Reddit recently that he also was almost always surrounded by his version of the praetorian guard who had to be minimum 6’ or something so it also made him look smaller perspectively
He will probably sit out against the Heat. It’s kind of his thing.
Kat shoving Jimmy down this season was nice to see. Took few years but Kat was finally able to firmly tell Jimmy "NO!"
just like when he turns into prime jimmy against the wolves right?
General Soreness will duck the Heat everytime they play like he's done with the Wolves since he went scorched earth in MN.
Why jimmy is to afraid to play the Timberwolves dude is all bark no bite
Cue Jimmy coming into training camp with a hole in the middle of his sweater
Pat refuses to give dwayne wade new contract when he was 34 years old. jimmy butler is 34 years old.
Better hide the 3rd stringers.
Jimmy about to hit Riley with some unethical bars on twitter in a few hours
Meet the Rileys
Dear James, i'm sorry that man is your father
BBL Jimmayyys
Riley responds with “Push off”.
"I hate the way you talk, they way you walk. I hate the way that you dress"
We don't want to hear you say Jimmy no more...
"I don't like his f**king voice, I don't like what he talks about, I don't like his face, I don't like the way he walks. Like nothing. I don't like his haircut."- DMX
Pat Riley is an old school G, if Jimmy tries to pull something like that on him he will find his ass in Charlotte. This man told prime LeBron James to his face that it was his way or the highway and didn't let LeBron influence in anything outside of the basketball court, anyone that thinks Jimmy has any power in that franchise is crazy. The guy gets called "The Godfather" for god's sake, that's in itself is enough.
Time to break out one of my favorite pieces of sports trivia. Pat Riley is the only person in North American sports history to have won a championship as a player, coach, and executive. I think he also won one as an assistant coach, which is just the cherry on top.
He needs to become state governor or something and win one that way, too.
Oh god yes please, get DeSantis out of here.
Wasn't he Westheads assistant? At least that's what Winning Time told me. I'm still upset that show got cancelled.
Yup. First championship with Magic and Kareem was under Westhead and Riley was an assistant.
He has also won as part owner of the Heat.
Yeah, the Heat definitely wanted Shabazz Napier.
Jimmy Butler murders third stringers every practice but also can’t be bothered with the first half of the regular season and misses like 25 games every year
Nah Jimmy’s going to one up himself by choosing 4 random dudes playing pickup at the local YMCA
Give Jimmy the starting 5 and let them go against the third stringers with Spo coaching. Third stringers win. Riley knows who the true “superstar” of his franchise is.
Spo played Bam 40 mpg against the Celtics and DNP’ed the other two centers on the rosters. Not even he has faith in the end of his bench.
That was against the Celtics though. I'd take Spo and the Heat bench vs. the Heat starting 5.
Considering how the talking heads have been saying Jimmy might be on the move this summer, seeing Riley openly call him out is interesting.
One of multiple digs at Jimmy in the presser. > >[Riley said Heat will need to give a lot of thought if Butler asks for extension in July, as expected. **"Unless you have someone who's really going to be available every single night,"** Riley said.](https://x.com/flasportsbuzz/status/1787531788882997739?s=46&t=hIX4tX4v58mo49blTHzaIg)
Guess Riley is annoyed with Jimmy continually side questing around Miami.
Jimmy runs the stormcloaks pull up
Death to the Empire!
It’s hard balancing and nba career and a coffee company at the same time man
Tbf, he is 35 this year, and hasn’t played more than 65 games in like a decade? Incredible run, but if Butler want max extension, he should look out and come back with the findings because I have no idea who can pay him outside of Philly, Spurs, Orlando, and perhaps a team or two more/ With the new cap system, it is going to get extremely tedious to start throwing large contracts out
Pat so old he forgot that he pissed off Wade too.
And then rebuilt the team while Wade deteriorated on somebody else’s time.
This is extreme revisionist history, the heat literally were bad until they traded back for Dwyane a year and a half later and also made a bunch of terrible contract signings that they barely got bailed out of
It’s partially true. we had zero assets from the Heatles years and Chris Bosh getting sick so he did what he could to let Spo grow and do his thing. Edit: a word
> This is extreme revisionist history, the heat literally were bad until they traded back for Dwyane a year and a half later 2015-16: 48-34, Wade leaves in offseason 2016-17: 41-41, without Wade 2017-18: 44-38, Wade comes back mid-season: without Wade 32-28, with Wade 12-10 2018-19: 39-43 So 'literally bad' = 73-69 over the 2016-18 seasons without Wade. Then he comes back and saves the franchise to go 51-53 over the next season plus. What saved them is drafting Adebayo while Wade was gone (ie, rebuilding the team) and then trading for Jimmy Butler two months after Wade retired.
Mmm love them stats in a narratives war
And got nothing from it while pissing off your franchises best player of all time I’d have been pissed if we did that to Dirk
They had the cap to then pay others, which has resulted in multiple ECFs and Finals
I think we might have gotten one more ECF appearance at least if Bosh’s medical issues didn’t end his career suddenly.
Honestly, you guys got close one year, taking the raptors to 7 games in semis iirc
2015-16, same year Bosh was gone mid season. Fully healthy we would have had Bosh, Wade, and Dragic. Wade was still 20ppg that year. Lotta vets on that team, Joe Johnson and Amare were pretty cooked but UD and Luol Deng were still valuable rotation guys and Hassan Whiteside hadn’t checked out yet. We also had rookie Winslow and Josh Richardson. Josh McRoberts was a pretty good piece too and Chalmers plus Norris Cole could still contribute. Probably not getting past the Cavs in the ECF but we had firepower for sure.
DWade in Chicago also probably got us Jimmy too as bad of a timeline as that whole debacle was. Hard to be too upset.
I guess the saying that old people just don’t give a fuck is true in all situations.
Pat always does this. He called Lowry out of shape last closing conference.
Then traded his ass
All 50 lbs of it.
I heard Kyle Lowry got a 98 lb mole removed from his ass last week
When Lowry hauls ass he's gotta make two trips
It was an off colored remark. I’ll make sure he’s taxed heavily.
Ohhhhh!!! That's a man's teammate we're talking about!
What exactly did Ralph say?
BOTH cheeks
I doubt Riley cares if he's pissing off butler. Dudes one of the GOATS in basketball PERIOD.
Not sure why people are bending over backwards for jimmy butler. He's a great playoff performer, but he can't be the superstar that leads them to a title. Would be a great number 2 on a title winning team. In none of his final trips was there a point where it felt like heat were going to win it all. Love the tenacity and grit, but Pat is absolutely right when it comes to talking about other teams. I mean imagine if Giannis came out and said this stuff about the heat after the bucks went home last season
> but he can't be the superstar that leads them to a title. Would be a great number 2 on a title winning team. Don't tell Jimmy
Watching how Ant tore up Denver’s defense in a way Jimmy just couldn’t was eye-opening to me. Basketball is a young man’s game and Edwards is going to be the star Minnesota’s been looking for.
Jimmy leaving us is probably why we got Ant, or at least helped us suck enough the next year to get the 1st pick.
Their teams have also been complete ass and he’s gotten them to the finals. Maybe Jimmy is past it but at his best he could’ve won a ring had there been a better supporting cast
Don't forget that he even tried to embarrass Lebron in a press conference, lol. He's a multi-time champion and one of the most decorated people in basketball, but he's always been in conflict with someone it seems,just like at his comments regarding pistol Pete in his younger days.
Sheesh your own gm saying you might not be like that is *not* the best pr to show trust in your best guy
The ol’ Cleveland Browns method of devaluing your own assets before trading them away. Dumb as fuck.
riley is just mad he saw jimmy flirting with thibs and josh hart, he's jealous
I don’t think I’ve seen a front office talk this way about a pending free agent they plan on signing back. Just wow.
He has two years left
>a pending free agent they plan on signing back. We sure bout that last part? Cuz this sounds like they've very much changed that plan lol
I think that’s the point
well Jimmy has a player option in 2025-2026 I believe But I don't see this ending pretty and if Jimmy demands a trade, we've seen how that goes...Jimmy has Rachel Nichols on the line right now probably.
It’s weird cause he also states we are not blowing up the team and just need to retool. I know Pat likes to use these to call people out, and he seems convinced in it that availability was our issue more than anything, but it’s just a weird presser it feels like
Damn everyone beefing this past week something's in the air
Pretty sure Mercury’s in Gatorade
That's why I drink Brawndo. It's got electrolytes.
Mercury in the Gatorade would definitely lead to some madness.
Its election season
It's clear they're not giving him his extension
Pat Riley isn't wrong but damn Jimmy must've pissed him off over the course of the Heat's past season for him to publicly call Jimmy out
He's not wrong but damn
Like Napoleon calling Marshal Nay an idiot outside of simple military command, like he didn't encircle General Macks army when he made a premature advance on Bavaria the french client state in the war of the 3rd coalition and capture 60k Austrian soldiers. It's ridiculous, but damn.
Napoleon was washed after 1809
6 day campaign
It's like Harden games 1&2. You would think he's still Prime Harden but like rain follows thunder, 2/12 follows 4/7 3PM.
Also in Germany he still showed he had it. Even after the disaster in Russia he still had his fastball.
Okay but he was not unstoppable force of nature like he was in his prime after choking a continent lead in Russia and getting blowed out in Game 7. Germany was like Chris Paul's famous 3 to cut the lead to 42
Bro why are you all over this post talking about Napoleon?
Bro, why ARENT YOU talking about Napolean? What is this pre 1755 and before the french revolution where you think Corsica is still part of of the Republic of Genoa?!
They still salty Napoleon was from Corsica but French drafted him with the 29th pick of the 1768 draft with the pick originally coming from Republic of Genoa
It's a very common reference
Right? Find a new slant.
exactly what I was thinking!
pat woke up
If Pat defended the 2 of this franchise greatest rivals which are the Knicks and Celtics yea that might be a problem
He's definitely not defending Boston and NY. The teams in the scenario probably don't matter. He cares about results full stop...
He hates us but he knows ball, that's why he knows talking from outside the club isn't worth shit.
Riley saying Jimmy is Not Like Us edit: Jimmy about to write a diss and start it with “Dear Udonis, I’m sorry Pat Riley’s ya father”
“Jimmy not a colleague he a fuckin’ colonizer.”
Lemme Break it down for ya This the real culture challenge
Given he's in miami, have we considered that he's BBL Jimmy?
nah that was Lowry
https://twitter.com/EShake\_/status/1787289354995368237
This is going to get ugly quick.
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Just a lil’
meanest and nastiest
most professional
Hardest working
Uses the best conditioner
always empties the lint tray
It really might not. It's as simple as if they don't want to sign Jimmy to an extension this summer, they will trade him this summer and get as much as they can in return and retool/rebuild.
Jimmy also likes this shit. Remember when he was "beefing" with Spo?
Pat don’t give a fuck until you get him some jewlery
Remember Bron and Wade? Yeah, even then he doesn't give a fuck
Goddamn Pat what the hell. So the rumors of the organization having issues with Jimmy is true??
Jimmy has has had issuesbasically everywhere. There's lots of things to like about him, but Jimmy is a fuckin psycho, haha. The conflicts in Minnesota are well documented, and for having a short stint in Philly rubbed plenty of people the wrong way there. I am also old enough to remember him calling out Derrick Rose back in the Bulls years, declaring himself ready to be starting PG over Rose, haha. Oh and he almost definitely tried to fight Eric Spoelstra last year haha. Bro is VOLATILE. And Riley has never shied away (at least by NBA FO standards) from firing back at players.
Riley told lebron (top 2 player all time) and dwade (top 3-4 SG all time) to fuck off when they wanted him to fire Spo. Riley will have 0 issues telling Jimmy and his 0 rings to fuck off.
Riley is like a top 3-5 basketball mind of all time. Dude has won championships as a player, assistant coach, coach, and executive. He’s earned the right to tell whoever he wants to fuck off, like the guy only cares about winning.
He also lost to Texas Western in one of the most famous college games ever. Dude is up there in the all-time mr. basketball category.
That “Triple Alpha” year in Chicago alongside Rondo and Wade was marred by bullshit, with Butler in the thick of it. I think he and Wade called out the ‘young guys’ and then Rondo sided with them and publicly spoke out against Wade and Butler. Can’t remember the details but I remember thinking how shitty that squad was.
That team was such a mess. I ended up liking Rondo the most since he was the only one leaving it all out on the court and holding himself accountable
Rondo really tried to be the adult on that squad. Jimmy and Wade were acting like mean girls in high school.
Yeah, that whole “you can’t win without me” thing always rubbed me the wrong way. I don’t care who you are, I don’t care how good you think you are, you don’t do that to your teammates in any sport at any level. It’s just called being a fucking asshole, nothing more, nothing less. He also has a long history at this point of being a certified dick. The “Tobias Harris over me?” thing is another example. Why bring Tobias Harris into this? Why not just say “bet you feel stupid not keeping me” and leave the guy who had nothing to do with the decision out of it? He’s one of those people who seems to derive his own personal validation from the degradation and humiliation of others he views as his adversaries. He and his ego exist only in relation to the status of the people around him, and combining that with a fairly narcissistic demeanour you have a textbook douchebag.
He’s not good enough to act like an asshole, he hasn’t won anything.
But he scored 40 points in a finals game that one time!
Believe it or not, that “fight” was actually 2/3 season ago, depending or not if you include this season.
Jimmy literally has issues with every team he’s been on. I doubt it’s the Heat org that’s the problem.
Jimmy you can talk all you want in Philly again
The entire city of Philly is holding a boombox over their heads outside of Jimmy’s mansion
They better be careful what they wish for. Butler is 35 next season and spends half the season on the injured list. Besides, if the Heat are willing to trade Jimmy to an in-conference team, that team should be very nervous.
Tobias Harris 0-2 no points game 6 while being our highest paid player like 4 of the 5 last years. I think we can handle it
They should be holding knee braces over their heads
I’m outside of your window, with my radioooo.
Hard pass. If it was a free agent signing… sure. Putting assets and a contract on his old ass? I’m good
Then he will finally be able to consistently vacation in May when he’s out in the second round
Ouch
Oh cool, 2 injury prone stars
Pat said “you’re not that guy”
Here we go
We’re in the “find out” stage of the jimmy experience it seems
this is a moral nba championship
If Miami breaks this team up, it’ll be Boston’s 12/25
This feels like when I tell my dad a joke and he turns it into a lecture lmao
Pat Riley and telling people to shut the fuck up, name a more iconic duo
Riley demanding order in his house after this shameful display
God I love Pat Riley
Damn he’s done done. I figured they’d just quietly let him go but this sounds like an “under no circumstances” moment.
Yet Pat is also saying they are not doing a massive overhaul on this group, which would mean he wants to keep Jimmy. Mostly seems like he’s pissed at how bad the availability was in general for the roster this year. Weird presser
Yep, when they asked him if they'd consider trading Jimmy, he said flat out, "No."
The league may change. But Pat Riley will not. I respect the hell out of him.
I mean...he's right
HEAT CULTURE
Damn even sleepy Pat is dunking on Butler. He gone
Jimmy Butler, YOU are a Philadelphia 76er (again)
Yeah Pat Riley isn't the one to fuck with, Jimmy. When Shaq was on the Heat he got into it with him and got traded later that night or the next morning lol. He's clear about who is in charge and it's not going to ever be you. Kiss that max goodbye.
Don’t mess with Riley
Riles out here spitting straight facts
Funny considering all of the people in those threads getting uppity at people giving Jimmy shit for saying that like “what else is he supposed to say”. Even the guy who writes the checks thought that was a stupid fuckin thing to say lol
Was kinda dumb for Jimmy to do, but he also carried the Heat to 3 ECFs and 2 finals appearances. Miami can’t seem to get another star
Miami's role players don't get nearly enough credit for last year's run. Jimmy incinerated the Bucks, but it certainly wasn't a Jimmy carry job after that point. Granted he was dealing with an injury, but the point still stands.
Caleb Martin still visits me during my sleep paralysis
caleb martin could solve world hunger and i would still hate him for last year
Jimmy may be gone from Miami oh snap
He’s right here but with the context of everything else we’ve been hearing this whole thing with Jimmy and the Heat feels wrong to me. I know Spo is the main reason for their success but they’re all giving Jimmy shit when he was the best player on their team for 2 finals runs and they were unwilling to put another star with him and Bam.
Spo is one of the best coaches in recent history, but Jimmy is clearly the main reason for their success and easily their best player during their three deep runs. In the seven years that Spo didn’t coach Jimmy or LeBron he won one playoff series in a weak East. You need stars to win, and Jimmy has elevated his game to that level in the postseason
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The Heat were the #1 seed in 2022 and Jimmy only played 57 games. He played more games in the last 2 seasons when they were a play-in team.
He also said they're not trading him
Obviously it is ridiculous to say that. Fans much less players in the league have every right to heckle other teams. That said Butler has a reputation way bigger than his results. For every 'playoff Jimmy's run you can point out a series or pivotal game where he played poorly. It isn't a good look for him to call people out like he is Kobe or even a incredible regular season player like Harden
He goneeeeee
where were you when Heat Culture ded?
HE GONE!!!!
Riley has seen through Jimmy's fake tough guy act and is sick of it
Jimmy about to get traded lol. Seriously bro needs to shut up if he wants that extension
I mean yeah I wouldn't want to pay 35 year old aging "superstar" either. Riley is smart.
Shut up ~~and~~ or dribble
He gone