JIMMY BUTLER

The first piece to fall in an offseason full of earthshaking moves was a dominoes buff with almost as much experience waiting tables at Denny’s as playing AAU ball. Now and the young Timberwolves are one of the many newlook, superstar-heavy squads hoping to make a serious run at the most loaded team of them all, the Warriors

LEE JENKINS

THE SELFTITLED GARBAGE GUY from small-town Texas who grew up on Spam and syrup sandwiches, who waited tables at Denny’s and mowed lawns in basketball shoes, who played one game of AAU (“travel ball,” he called it) and never left the bench, who received a single scholarship offer out of high school from Centenary and a partial from Quinnipiac, who started in junior college only after two regulars failed drug tests and who faxed his letter of intent to Marquette from a McDonald’s sinks into a tan leather banquette on a Gulfstream III bound for Silicon Valley. Jimmy Butler is on the phone with his new head coach in Minnesota, Tom Thibodeau, who of course was also his old head coach in Chicago. They talk every day, often multiple times,…

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Sports Illustrated (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 16, 2017

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