A year ago, Jimmy Butler was changing teams for the third time in three years. He didn't make the All-Star Game for the first time in four years, and he had developed a reputation as an irritant or a malcontent or a difficult teammate -- or all three.
These days, Joel Embiid tweets as if Butler is the one who got away. The Chicago Bulls and Minnesota Timberwolves could be watching Butler's Eastern Conference finals run with the Miami Heat and wondering what might have been.