{"id":128514,"date":"2025-03-13T14:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=128514"},"modified":"2025-03-13T14:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:38:07","slug":"new-motivation-jimmy-butler-trade-from-miami-heat-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/03\/13\/new-motivation-jimmy-butler-trade-from-miami-heat-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"New Motivation for Jimmy Butler Trade from Miami Heat Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a long saga, the Miami Heat<\/a> finally traded Jimmy Butler<\/a> to the Golden State Warriors<\/a> ahead of last month’s trade deadline. Though it was mostly unknown why Butler wanted to move on from the Heat after six years, he made it clear he was not happy in Miami anymore. Recently, Andscape’s Marc J. Spears<\/a> spoke with Butler and provided some insight into the trade that sent him to Golden State.<\/p>\n

According to Spears, Butler wanted a trade away from Miami because he wanted to feel more valued.<\/p>\n

“Jimmy Butler wanted to be traded because he felt the Heat were moving in a direction without him in mind and he wanted to be more valued, sources said. The four-time NBA All-Star ended up asking for a trade from the Heat in his seventh season with the franchise,” Spears wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In parts of six seasons with the Heat, Butler averaged 21 points, 6 rebounds, 5.7 assists, and 1.7 steals. Additionally, he was a two-time All-Star and led the Heat to two NBA Finals appearances during his tenure there.<\/p>\n

New Motivation for Jimmy Butler Trade from Miami Heat Revealed<\/h2>\n

Jimmy Butler Just Wants to Win<\/h3>\n

Before acquiring Butler, the Warriors were in a bit of a rut. At the time of the trade, the Warriors were 25-26 and owned the No. 10 seed in the West. Despite a hot start to the season, it looked like the Warriors were in serious danger of missing the playoffs. However, they are 12-1 in the 13 games Butler has played for the team. While speaking with Spears, Butler made it clear that his main goal is to bring another championship to Golden State.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I walked in, I was like, \u2018Yo, look man, I\u2019m only here to win,\u2019\u201d Butler told Andscape. \u201c\u2019I don\u2019t care about nothing else. I don\u2019t care about points…shots…none of that. I\u2019m only here to win and I\u2019ve always only been places to win. So, whatever y\u2019all need me to do, y\u2019all let me know.”<\/p>\n

\u201cShow me some grace because I\u2019m new until I get the hang of this thing. But the one thing about everything is my energy is at an all-time high because I\u2019m here and ain\u2019t s\u2014 changed. The goal is still remaining the same and that\u2019s winning a championship,” Butler said.<\/p>\n

Jimmy Butler Has Fans in Golden State<\/h3>\n

It is clear that Butler has already made an impact in both on and off the court. Recently, head coach Steve Kerr<\/a> compared Butler to Andre Iguodala<\/a>, who won a Finals MVP<\/a> with the Warriors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last 10 games, we\u2019re second in both offense and defense. Obviously a small sample size, but that\u2019s when we got Jimmy. So, things have clearly turned with him. He\u2019s a great complement to what already do\u2026What he\u2019s adding is that maturity and poise. We\u2019ve made that Andre comparison. He\u2019s not the exact same player as Andre Igoudala, but he has the same influence. He\u2019s constantly reading what\u2019s happening and calming us down and creating good possessions at both ends. \u201d Kerr said.<\/p>\n

Butler still has a long way to go to establish himself in Warriors history. However, at this rate, it is looking pretty good for him and the team.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 David Gonzales-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a long saga, the Miami Heat finally traded Jimmy Butler to the Golden State Warriors ahead of last month’s trade deadline. Though it was mostly unknown why Butler wanted to move on from the Heat after six years, he made it clear he was not happy in Miami anymore. Recently, Andscape’s Marc J. Spears […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4631,"featured_media":128515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,2,16,62,3,4721],"tags":[142,1382],"class_list":["post-128514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-featured","category-heat","category-nba","category-news","category-trade-rumors","tag-jimmy-butler","tag-nba-trade"],"modified_by":"Elie Deglaoui","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128517,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128514\/revisions\/128517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}