Jimmy Butler is in town..

[The Midnight]

There's this thing called a trade in which teams exchange players for one another.

Yeah but I've never heard of a situation where the player in a proposed trade 'scouts' out the city of the team before he gets traded to that team.

 

[Cappy_Smurf]

Yeah but I've never heard of a situation where the player in a proposed trade 'scouts' out the city of the team before he gets traded to that team.

You assume that if you haven't heard about something, that it must not be happening. Could be negotiations going on that even you have not heard about yet.

Utah most certainly talked to George Hill about the potential of re-signing in Utah before trading a first rounder for him.

Of course, it could be something completely unrelated going on, or perhaps where there's smoke, there's fire. Imma choose to believe in fire.

 

[The Midnight]

You assume that if you haven't heard about something, that it must not be happening. Could be negotiations going on that even you have not heard about yet.

Well let's say there is negotiation between the Jazz and the Bulls right now about the trade for Butler, etc.



It's still unprecedented for the player in that said discussion to physically come down to the city of the team he hasn't been yet traded to 'scout out' the city.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

According to the reddit thread on this, his step-dad is a coach at BYU, so he has family in Utah I guess.

Googled, Butler was adopted by Jordan Leslie's family (former BYU WR). Their step-dad coaches at BYU.

So there is the connection. His adoptive family lives in Utah.

 

[infection]

He looked up the top ten tourist destinations in Utah, saw Temple Square at number one, and decided he needed to check it out.

 

[Siro]

There's nothing we can give the Bulls to convince them to give away their best player and rebuild.

 

[The Midnight]

According to the reddit thread on this, his step-dad is a coach at BYU, so he has family in Utah I guess.

Googled, Butler was adopted by Jordan Leslie's family (former BYU WR). Their step-dad coaches at BYU.

So there is the connection. His adoptive family lives in Utah.

If this is all true we need to go hard at him in free agency.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

If this is all true we need to go hard at him in free agency.

Just because his family moved to Utah doesnt necessarily mean he would like living in Utah.

 

[The Midnight]

Just because his family moved to Utah doesnt necessarily mean he would like living in Utah.

It's just another selling point, that's all it is.

 

[SCS]

There's nothing we can give the Bulls to convince them to give away their best player and rebuild.

GarPax isn't the smartest duo. It can be done lol.

 

[Thee Jazz Fan]

A buddy of mine said he spotted Jimmy Buckets today around downtown. I did some digging and saw some pictures on Instagram that he was tagged in and it's legit, he is in town. Obviously it could be for any number of reasons, but hopefully something is in the works for the offseason. A Hayward, Gobert and Butler core would be a force in this league. Easily top 2 seed with the Spurs getting older..

Why in the hell would Chicago give butler away for anything other then Hayward or Gobert and late first round picks??

 

[infection]

Why in the hell would Chicago give butler away for anything other then Hayward or Gobert and late first round picks??

We've got tons of assets:

Second round picks galore
Tomic
If we trade Burks for Porzingis then that's another asset we could parlay into Butler and George