The agent for Jimmy Butler has denied reports that he has given indications in league circles that his client would be open to a trade to the Houston Rockets, Dallas Mavericks, Golden State Warriors or Phoenix Suns. Agent Bernie Lee responded following Shams Charania’s report adding the Suns to the list of Butler’s preferred teams with Lee’s name mentioned specifically.
“Alright listen,” Lee said to begin his response. “I gave you a pass yesterday because I was busy but if you don’t stop putting my name on your complete and utter made up bull- because you know you normally aren’t worth my time to acknowledge.”
Following his first post on social media on Wednesday night, Lee continued to go at Charania: “I don’t know what I’m going to do because I’m a middle aged dad but just know it would indicate severe dislike. World… all this is fabricated. I have never and honestly it wouldn’t help me or the position I represent to do anything that’s been reported by said ‘journalist.'”
In Lee’s third and final post responding to Charania’s reports, he wrote: “Shams this is your opportunity to say my bad ‘I let chat GPT write my tweets and it went old school Peter Vecsey.’ (Shams Peter was a writer in the 90’s) be a trend setter.. invent the new I was hacked. Carry on all. Thank you.”
Lee was asked by the Miami Herald what has frustrated Lee the most about the speculation surrounding Butler this week.
“Anything associated to Jimmy’s position and using my name as the tool to cement a headline,” Lee said to the Miami Herald. “Jimmy’s job is to perform at his job to the best of his many abilities and to drive that team to win. As of today, Jimmy analytically grades out as approximately the sixth-eighth best player in the NBA and his team has almost a plus 10 point differential when his usage is over 20. The Golden State Warriors, when they won 73 games were a plus 11.6. He’s doing his job, really well, and that is the focus, which in turn makes it my focus.”
A source told the Miami Herald that Butler has never asked to be traded and Miami is not aggressively shopping him.