When the Jazz were in Minnesota all the way back on Halloween, the Timberwolves were right smack in the midst of their Jimmy Butler headache.
Head coach and team president Tom Thibodeau announced at that morning’s shootaround that Butler would be sitting out that night due to “general soreness and preventative rest.” In his pregame media session, Thibs tried to make it sound like a mutual decision: “When you miss training camp like he did — basically this is his training camp, so there’s soreness involved” he said. “… You have to trust the player.”
Nope, nope, nope.