According to a report, Jimmy Butler is more than willing to meet with the Miami Heat once free agency begins. It’s a nice notion, but the Heat look to begin free agency with about $141 million on the books, massively above the $109 million salary cap, and offering him a max contract would require cutting more than $60 million off the books.
Needless to say, that’s quite unlikely, so if anything is to come of this, another way must be found.
Enter the sign-and-trade, a mechanism which would allow the Philadelphia 76ers to re-sign Butler for the express purpose of trading him to another team of his choosing.