“Don’t put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby! I had nothing to do with it!”
Jimmy Butler channeled his inner Will Ferrell when Draymond Green dragged him into a back-and-forth on social media over the weekend.
The exchange took place after the Miami Heat traded forward Haywood Highsmith to the Brooklyn Nets on Friday. The trade sent Highsmith and a 2032 second-round pick to the Nets in exchange for a protected 2026 second-round pick.
Highsmith was looked at as a key piece to Miami’s future while Butler still was with the team before the Feb. 5 trade to the Warriors, but Green appears to believe the praise, by some, was exaggerated.
Highsmith averaged 24.6 minutes per game last season with the Heat, while scoring only 6.5 PPG.
Butler averaged 17.5 PPG last season, which puts these two in completely different categories.
The Heat reportedly made offers to the Phoenix Suns for now-Houston Rockets forward Kevin Durant this offseason, but Miami team president Pat Riley was unwilling to include young assets like Highsmith.
The complexities of Butler’s relationship with the Heat organization ultimately were unreconcilable in the end, but he seems much more at home now with the Warriors and isn’t too excited to contribute to Green’s social media banter.
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