Dwayne Wade spent the first 13 seasons of his career with the Miami Heat and probably did not appreciate the quality of their culture until he joined the Chicago Bulls.
Wade made a comment in the Bulls locker room showing that perspective, which sources told ESPN’s Zach Law that Jimmy Butler overheard him and stuck with him.
Butler was never satisfied with being sold from the Bulls to the Minnesota Timberwives and then to the Philadelphia 76ers.
“The NBA doesn’t have a utopia. Every team has problems,” Butler’s agent, Bernie Lee, told him several times.
“I’ll always hear back: What about Miami?” Lee said. “I can only guess the person who had Jimmy in the locker for a year and who is in a picture with Jimmy who has something connected to the home screen on Jimmy’s phone.”
Butler’s first choice was a hit, although he didn’t have the cap space.
“We never talked about Miami as a city,” Lee said. “It’s a beautiful place with amazing people, but Jimmy didn’t go there on the beach. Since he got there, I think we went out to dinner less than 10 times and one of them was the Super Bowl. We didn’t. ‘Don’t even talk about tax benefits. The only questions he asked were about the background of the people involved and how they would move the team forward. “
As one rival GMA told him: “Business is a better asset than business.”
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