Jimmy Butler has decided he’d like to play elsewhere. But will the Minnesota Timberwolves let him?
That is the existential question facing the franchise in the wake of Butler issuing a trade request to Tom Thibodeau, the team’s coach and president of basketball operations, during a face-to-face meeting Tuesday in Los Angeles.
It seemed like an ominous sign for the Timberwolves that the meeting, which was originally scheduled for Monday in Minneapolis, was pushed back to Tuesday and moved. The trade request, which was first reported by the Athletic on Wednesday, officially makes the situation so.