Shortly after news broke that Jimmy Butler would join the Miami Heat last summer, The Athletic’s Tim Cato reported that the Heat would trade Goran Dragic to the Mavericks to complete the deal. But that deal fell through, and the Mavericks instead wanted Derrick Jones Jr. and Kelly Olynyk.
Not wanting to trade the young, high-flying Jones, Pat Riley instead traded Hassan Whiteside to the Portland Trail-Blazers to complete the Jimmy Butler sign-and-trade.
Jimmy Butler deal is complete with Heat -- with Clippers added as a fourth-team in trade that also includes Philadelphia and Portland, league sources tell @ZachLowe_NBA and me.