The Miami Heat is exchanging Jimmy Butler to the Golden State Warriors, CBS Sports NBA Insider Bill Reiter confirmed. The treatment comes on the eve of the 2025 NBA Exchange deadline and send Butler to the Bay area in exchange for Andrew Wiggins, Kyle Anderson and a First Protected Round Selection. According to reports, jazz and pistons are also part of this multi -team trade. An important commercial detail was reported minutes after news was broken from the agreement: Butler and the Warriors agreed to an extension of the two -year contract and $ 111 million, ESPN reports. The contract extends during the 2026-27 season.
Here is the informed agreement, although it has not yet been completed.
- Receive heat: Andrew Wiggins, Kyle Anderson, PJ Tucker, 2025 First Round Pick
- The warriors receive: Jimmy Butler
- Jazz receives: Dennis Schroder
- The pistons receive: Lindy Waters, Josh Richardson
The Warriors will wait for the agreement to give Stephen Curry and Draymond Green the veteran co -star who need to seriously compete for a fifth championship. The heat begins fresh after a tumultuous season with its former star striker.
The first rumors that the Heat was interested in moving to Butler came to the press conference at the end of the season of President Pat Riley, the past spring, in which he indicated that the limited availability of Butler would factor the will of the team to give him an extension long -term contract. Miami did not finally give Butler a new agreement last summer, and the rumors withdrew this season after a slow start for both the player and the team. Butler has a player option after the season and, therefore, can become a free agent in June, and with the heat around .500, a movement apparently became more likely every day.
When the reports suggested that Butler would prefer an exchange in December, there was denial on all sides. Butler’s agent Bernie Lee publicly played the reports of Shams Charania de ESPN, and Riley issued a statement by saying that Butler would stay. “In general, we do not comment on rumors, but all this speculation has become a distraction for the team and it is not fair for players and coaches. Therefore, we will make it clear: we are not exchanging Jimmy Butler.” , Riley wrote.
However, things reached a critical point after a January 3 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans in which team officials As reported, implicit that did not try anymore. A trade application As reported, it continued Shortly after, and on January 4, the heat suspended Butler seven games for “multiple instances of behavior harmful to the team over the course of the season and particularly in recent weeks.” Since then it has been suspended twice more, once a team flight is lost, and then again after leaving a shooting. His last suspension was indefinite and Butler has not played since January 21.
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In addition to the Suns, the Warriors were the team most frequently linked to Butler in the commercial market. Initially, however, the reports indicated that the conversations had broken down on Butler’s hesitation to sign an extension with the Warriors. However, as the deadline approached and a treatment for the Suns was impossible, Butler has apparently heated to the idea of ​​a trade to Golden State, and the idea of ​​an extension.
Ironically, the Suns were vital for this agreement on both sides of the equation. This week, the Warriors tried to change for Kevin Durant when it seemed that Butler would not be willing to sign an extension with them. The conversations seemed to be winning impulse until it supposedly lasts made it clear that he was not interested On a return to the warriors. Meanwhile, Miami also investigated a Durant agreement, but when making this trade, they apparently pointed out that the Suns had chosen not to treat it. That meant that the Warriors need a star and a butler, without Durant available to serve as a SunS salary, needed a new home. That helped take this trade in the goal line.
This is the third success of great success of the deadline of 2025. The Lakers acquired Luka Doncic and sent Anthony Davis to the Mavericks in an amazing agreement on Saturday night. The Spurs acquired the star guard of’aaron Fox of the Kings the next night.
At the beginning of the season, several key stakeholders in Golden State went against making an exchange of profits and now. Curry said the Warriors had the responsibility of not making a “desperate” movement, and Green said that “the bad teams do that.”
As the season progressed, it became clearer that the warriors needed a trade of this magnitude. While they started the 12-3 season, they have been in decline since then. The stagnant development of their young players, the absence of veteran last season and the ineffective acquisition of Dennis Schroder (acquired from the networks in December) made it clear that the Warriors needed a serious injection of talent if they hoped to give Curry and Green To another shot in a title. Now, in Butler, they have achieved the most shocking veteran they have added since Durant in 2016.
