Is Pat Riley diabolical enough to send Butler to the Lakers (what's Gabe Vincent up to)? Would he settle for Kris Middleton and others from the Bucks? Maybe Brooklyn develops institutional amnesia and deals Cam Johnson for Jimmy and a buckets of swaps and seconds?
I’m not going to defend Jimmy - your point very much still stands - but he wasn’t the one to sabotage the end of Joakim Noah’s Bulls career; it was an incompetent front office that signed a way over the hill Pau Gasol to start at center pushing Noah to the four, a position for which he was unsuited, and then hiring an equally incompetent coach who demoted Noah to the second unit and falsely claimed that he had agreed to it. In the midst of that chaos, Butler was just a minor disturbance. (I felt the need to clarify this because Joakim Noah was my favorite player, and the way he was treated still galls me.)
Bulls treated Noah and his contemporaries badly. Captain Kirk was dumped for cap space. Luol Deng was told to get his bag elsewhere, Taj Gibson wasted the best years of his career sitting out fourth quarters so Carlos Boozer could make noise not stops, and Derrick Rose never got to heal from his injuries.
Is Pat Riley diabolical enough to send Butler to the Lakers (what's Gabe Vincent up to)? Would he settle for Kris Middleton and others from the Bucks? Maybe Brooklyn develops institutional amnesia and deals Cam Johnson for Jimmy and a buckets of swaps and seconds?
I’m not going to defend Jimmy - your point very much still stands - but he wasn’t the one to sabotage the end of Joakim Noah’s Bulls career; it was an incompetent front office that signed a way over the hill Pau Gasol to start at center pushing Noah to the four, a position for which he was unsuited, and then hiring an equally incompetent coach who demoted Noah to the second unit and falsely claimed that he had agreed to it. In the midst of that chaos, Butler was just a minor disturbance. (I felt the need to clarify this because Joakim Noah was my favorite player, and the way he was treated still galls me.)
Bulls treated Noah and his contemporaries badly. Captain Kirk was dumped for cap space. Luol Deng was told to get his bag elsewhere, Taj Gibson wasted the best years of his career sitting out fourth quarters so Carlos Boozer could make noise not stops, and Derrick Rose never got to heal from his injuries.