Oh, how the heart yearns for a deal pairing Jimmy Butler with James Harden in Houston!
Two alpha dogs. Two players with major diva tendencies. Two guys with very definite and very different ideas about how to play the game of basketball. There’s either a peer-reviewed psychological study or a police report for felonious assault waiting to be written here.
Please, please, please, Rockets and 76ers executives, make this happen. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Rockets are hoping that Butler forces his team, the 76ers, into a sign-and-trade deal that would send him to Houston. Butler becomes a free agent Sunday evening, and he can bolt Philadelphia if he doesn’t like the money the 76ers are offering — or if he doesn’t like the 76ers, period.