Countdown to the trade deadline: Jimmy Butler

According to the Chicago Tribune's K.C. Johnson, more than one general manager thinks the Boston Celtics and Chicago Bulls will reconsider the topic of a Jimmy Butler trade before the February 23rd trade deadline passes.

You're forgiven if you're skeptical. You should be. Not of the source - it's no surprise GMs around the league are connecting the Celts to every trade rumor imaginable, and several which never should have been imagined in the first place too. But that's to be expected when you're sitting on a vault full of potential trade assets with as much flexibility as three-fourths of the teams in the league.

It's led to a bit of weariness on both the writer's and reader's end of the…