However, a blockbuster trade with the Miami Heat could help the Nuggets reach elite status season. The big question in a potential deal of this magnitude (Michael Porter Jr. to th
Would adding Jimmy Butler make the Nuggets good ... packaging their 2031 first-round pick with Porter Jr. and the necessary salaries is essentially their only option. Porter Jr. and Butler have a difference in salary this season of about $13 million.
Jamal Murray scored 30 points, Nikola Jokic extended his NBA lead with his 17th triple-double of the season and the Denver Nuggets spoiled Jimmy Butler’s return by beating the Miami Heat 133-113 on Friday night.
Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat were a match made in heaven. But the same factors that made that so meant there was always an expiration date on this seemingly perfect marriage. A public standoff was the only way it could end.
Less than one month separates us from the 2025 NBA trade deadline. And naturally, the Jimmy Butler rumor mill is buzzing with all sorts of
HoopsHype ranks the five NBA players who have appeared most often in trade rumors over the previous week, led again by Jimmy Butler.
Sources close to Butler insist that one of his biggest issues with the Heat has become his role in the offense this season. Butler vocalized that frustration after the last game he played before the Heat suspended him on Jan. 3 for seven games “for multiple instances of conduct detrimental to the team over the course of the season.”
Jimmy Butler continues to loom large over the NBA trade deadline. Here is the latest intel and rumors surrounding possible deals.