Here’s a fun study in contrasts:
Former Wolves coach/executive Tom Thibodeau has been making the media rounds lately and was on with The Starters (love those guys) on Monday. Most of his work was breaking down the NBA playoffs, but he was asked at the end about Jimmy Butler and how Butler’s trade demand impacted the Wolves’ locker room.
Thibodeau — who also said he’d like to get back into coaching and considers all open jobs to be good ones — reiterated that he thinks it’s just a reality of the modern NBA. But he added this:
“I thought he did a lot of great things for us in Minnesota last year,” Thibodeau said.