2024-25 Boston Celtics & NBA Thread

All the clips, testimony, hard evidence ... Yet many don't think Bird was all that. Well, he wasn't. He was a hell of a lot more.


People remember old, injured Bird, and they remember Thomas' comment (and take it as if it was serious and accurate). They don't remember the guy who was so good that he won the MVP for 3 straight years, and was the leader of the greatest team ever to play basketball (1986 Celtics). Like Walton, Bird was a "better than everyone" guy who's career was derailed by injury.
 
Jimmy Butler has been making some pretty thinly veiled comments of late about his desire to traded from the Miami Heat, but now he's made it official as Shams Charania and Brian Windhorst of ESPN report that Butler has "indicated to the Heat he wants the team to trade him" and that he is "open to playing anywhere other than Miami."

According to ESPN, Butler will not provide a list of destinations as he feels he can make any team a contender and, notably, he says he will participate in all team activities and "do whatever the Heat ask of him" as the sides work toward a resolution.

"Participate" is pretty loose term, however...

Jimmy Butler trade request: Heat star officially informs team he wants out, per report
 
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