This just seems so preposterous to me. Jimmy Butler is good, but if he was the type of star that could unite with Kyrie to challenge the Warriors, his Bulls and Wolves teams would have been better.
No way that Irving leaves Hayward, Horford, Tatum, and Brown to team up with a second tier star at best.
right now Butler is better than all of those guys and frankly if the Zinger gets healthy he might be also.
Wrong, as usual.
Brown and Tatum have to be considered better prospects than KP, Hayward and Horford can both carry a team more than Butler can.
Butler is very overrated, a beta.
I said right now. Not some future possible peak. Right now Butler is the better player
That remains to be seen.
Butler's health is a big question, as he wasn't the same player after the mid-season injury.
Also worth mentioning, Thibs stars have "expiry date" before age 29.
Noah, Deng, Rose all succumbed by then due to his exploitations.
Jimmy will now enter his age 29 season, and it doesn't seem like Thibs will change his approach, while Jimmy will still play physical basketball.
I hope Jimmy does well, but Brown and Tatum are much safer bets at the moment. Younger, durable, more scalable (able to play with other great players without losing their production, efficiency or causing chemistry issues), they also play better off the ball as they can stroke 3's all day long.
God, please don't let Thibs crush KAT, it is like stomping a nice fragrant flower or ants.
Nothing useful, just a shame.