It was big news earlier this week when All-Star Jimmy Butler told Minnesota Timberwolves team president and head coach Tom Thibodeau he wanted to be traded before the 2018-19 season begins.
For fans of the Brooklyn Nets, it was stunning that Butler included three teams on his short list of preferred landing spots and one of those teams was … the Nets.
The last time, perhaps the only other time, a star player openly expressed a desire to be traded to the Nets was when Dwight Howard made those sounds while trying to get away from the Orlando Magic in 2012.