{"id":23777,"date":"2025-01-06T21:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T21:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=23777"},"modified":"2025-01-06T21:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T21:37:37","slug":"nba-news-3-team-trade-pitch-sends-jimmy-butler-to-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=23777","title":{"rendered":"NBA NEWS: 3-Team Trade Pitch Sends Jimmy Butler to Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-1946504309-e1725482575363.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-1946504309-e1725482575363.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-1946504309-e1725482575363.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-1946504309-e1725482575363.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"3-Team Trade Pitch Sends Jimmy Butler to Los Angeles\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Jovic #5 and Jimmy Butler #22 of the Miami Heat speak on the court during the third quarter of the game against the Atlanta Hawks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Miami Heat announced on Friday, January 3 that they will \u201clisten to offers\u201d involving a Jimmy Butler trade. In the aftermath of the announcement, several teams contacted the Heat with their offers, per several insiders.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Warriors, Mavericks, Rockets and Suns have been widely linked as Butler\u2019s four preferred destinations, the Clippers could emerge as a darkhorse candidate to land the Heat All-Star due to their bevy of tradeable contracts and assets.<\/p>\n<p>As such, Sports Illustrated\u2019s Anthony Pasciolla proposed a three-team trade that would see Butler heading to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_xdimhcq61\"><strong>Clippers would receive:<\/strong>\u00a0Jimmy Butler<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_xdimhcq61\"><strong>Heat would receive:<\/strong>\u00a0Brandon Ingram, P.J. Tucker, a 2025 first-round draft pick from the Clippers, and a 2027 second-round draft pick from the Pelicans<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_s4jdewvbb\"><strong>Pelicans would receive:<\/strong>\u00a0Norman Powell, Nah\u2019Shon Hyland, Terance Mann, and a 2031 first-round draft pick from the Clippers<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_s4jdewvbb\">The trade pitch is interesting since the Clippers would replace Paul George, who bolted from Los Angeles as a free agent in 2024, with Butler, and return to title contention. Similarly, the Heat would get a younger version of Butler in Ingram, who averaged 22.2 points, 5.6 rebounds and 5.2 assists through the early part of the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>A Win-Win-Win Situation?<\/h2>\n<p>Finally, the Pelicans \u2014 who have been in a contract dispute with Ingram \u2014 will get an opportunity to hit the reset button with a host of young pieces and assets. While Hyland and Mann are both excellent role players, Powell is enjoying a career-best season averaging 23.5 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.4 assists with the Clippers.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it\u2019s the league\u2019s worst-kept secret that the Pelicans, who had the worst record in the Western Conference as of January 5, are in \u201ctank mode\u201d with the desire to land Cooper Flagg or Ace Bailey in the 2025 NBA Draft. As such, the aforementioned Jimmy Butler trade pitch allows them to move a step closer in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis [trade] allows the Heat to move Butler to a contender while also landing themselves with win-now talent,\u201d Pasciolla wrote on January 5. \u201cThe Los Angeles Clippers are off to a better start than most anticipated with a record of 20-15. With Kawhi Leonard\u2019s debut occurring on Jan. 4, it may be worth going all in for another championship run. \u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Heat Unhappy with Jimmy Butler Trade Offers<\/h2>\n<p>The Heat have until the February 6 NBA trade deadline to find Butler a new home and re-energize the team in the second half of the season. However, ESPN\u2019s Brian Windhorst reported on January 6 that the Heat had yet to receive desirable trade offers for the six-time All-Star.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve definitely gotten a lot of calls,\u201d Windhorst said of the Heat on ESPN\u2019s SportsCenter. \u201cThe issue here is that most of the offers are not that attractive to the Heat. And that doesn\u2019t surprise them because a month ago they heard some calls on Jimmy Butler and then they came out with that statement that they weren\u2019t going to trade him because they really didn\u2019t like any of the offers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, I think you\u2019re seeing a lot of teams are testing how low they might be able to buy Jimmy Butler for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To Windhorst\u2019s point, Heat president Pat Riley issued a statement on December 26 in which he made it clear that his team won\u2019t trade Butler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe usually don\u2019t comment on rumors, but all this speculation has become a distraction to the team and is not fair to the players and coaches. Therefore, we will make it clear \u2013 We are not trading Jimmy Butler.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"59f31f2776bf2e9563e0133733f6d499\">\n<div>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Statement from Pat Riley<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe usually don\u2019t comment on rumors, but all this speculation has become a distraction to the team and is not fair to the players and coaches. Therefore, we will make it clear \u2013 We are not trading Jimmy Butler.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A lot transpired after Riley\u2019s statement as the Heat slapped Butler with a seven-game suspension for \u201cmultiple instances of conduct detrimental to the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sai Mohan covers the NBA for Heavy.com. Based in Portugal, Sai is a seasoned sports writer with nearly two decades of publishing experience, including bylines at Yardbarker, FanSided&#8217;s Hoops Habit, International Business Times, Hindustan Times and more. More about Sai Mohan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Illustrated has proposed a three-team Jimmy Butler trade that would see the Heat star heading to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NBA NEWS: 3-Team Trade Pitch Sends Jimmy Butler to Los Angeles - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=23777\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NBA NEWS: 3-Team Trade Pitch Sends Jimmy Butler to Los Angeles - 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