Trade negotiations between the Golden State Warriors and Miami Heat stopped due to Jimmy Butler’s reluctance to sign an extension with the Warriors, according to Brian Windhorst d’Espn. The news comes while Butler remains suspended indefinitely By heat after having expressed his desire to be negotiated in early January, followed by multiple incidents that Miami deemed detrimental to the team, in particular Go out of a shotaround.
The Warriors were considered a possible pretender for Butler, who has a player option for the last year of his contract next season which would pay him $ 52 million. Due to its ability to refuse the option and become a free agent, any team that makes the assets in a trade would likely want a kind of assurance that Butler would be willing to extend for several years. Not only did Golden State received this insurance, but they were also informed exactly the opposite and therefore closed the talks with the heat.
However, there is a very important warning at the end of the Windhorst report: “For the moment”.
This could be an attempt to butler to make sure he goes to a destination of his choice – perhaps the Phoenix Suns to play alongside Kevin Durant and Devin Booker. If he tells the Warriors, and perhaps to other teams, that he will not sign with them after a job, perhaps may believe that he can force the hand of Pat Riley and the heat for Send him wherever he wants.
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There are some problems with this theory, however, and both involve Bradley Beal. In order for money to work in a butler agreement in Phoenix (assuming they keep during and Booker), Beal should be in the trade. The problem is that Beal has a clause without exchange and can simply say “nobody” on any case that suns and heat could do.
Second, even if Beal is ready to give up the clause, Phoenix must find a lessee for a player who has recently been sent to the bench and should earn more than $ 50 million per season until 2027.
Beal has already said that he was not interested in going to Bulls, according to The Athletic, and Chris Haynes reported some time that the Milwaukee Bucks had no discussion to take Beal in a potential butler trade.
Consequently, if Beal decides that he does not want to leave Phoenix or that the Suns simply find no one to take it, Butler may have to reconsider his position on the warriors or risk an annoyed impasse with the heat. Regardless of what is happening, the days preceding the commercial deadline on Thursday will be sure of being filled with rumors and posture concerning a butler business.
