After a year of rumors, the Wolves finally wound up getting a “Thibs-guy”. Jimmy Butler, like every other Chicago Bulls player coached by Tom Thibodeau from 2010-2015, has consistently had been connected to the Wolves since Thibodeau took the reigns last summer. But those rumors often felt more like a convenient narrative driven by player agents and media assumptions than actual interest. The Wolves front office has been extremely quiet since Thibs and Scott Layden came to town.
While frequently the narrative of, “well, he’s a ‘Thibs Guy’” caught steam, that steam often proved to be but a puff.