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A Year with Jimmy Butler

I’ve been trying to write this piece for the last three months. And bear with me, it’s going to be a bit all over the place. Namely because I’m still a little all over the place with my feelings about how the Jimmy Butler saga came to and shook out.

To get started, let’s rewind to June of 2017. Thrilled is an understatement when I found out the Wolves had landed Jimmy Butler in a blockbuster trade with the Chicago Bulls. I was ecstatic. I’d been lobbying for Butler to friends and family for the past three years, certain he would lead my hometown team to glory (read: playoffs for the first time in over a decade).