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2673391, Unless he's trying to force Glen Taylor to fire him, I've got no
Posted by Marauder21, Fri Sep-21-18 12:51 PM
other explanation for how he's acting.

He has ZERO leverage. With ownership, with his players, with other teams who want to trade for Jimmy, with anyone. This is from Woj's story today:

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/24753358/minnesota-timberwolves-rebuffing-jimmy-butler-trade-calls

Nevertheless, Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor has become fully engaged in the decision-making process on a potential Butler trade and is far more open to the idea of orchestrating a deal than president of basketball operations Tom Thibodeau and GM Scott Layden, league sources said.

Opposing teams believe the fastest avenue to a Butler deal is engaging Taylor, league sources said. Taylor is attending the NBA's Board of Governors meetings today in New York, which include owners and top basketball executives.

Taylor has overseen high-profile Minnesota stars getting traded in the past, including Kevin Garnett and Kevin Love.




So it's up to our dipshit owner to make a major basketball decision because the President of Basketball Operations is either too proud to admit he has to or he's just doing George Costanza and trying to force a firing/payout. Training camp starts next week and who knows if Jimmy's even going to show up.