Last week, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and Ramona Shelburne published an article detailing a heated conversation deemed “disrespectful” by a witness during a film session, wherein Sixers swingman Jimmy Butler confronted Brett Brown regarding his on-court role. The article went on to point out that Brett contends to have had no issue with the interaction, and merely sees it as a step in the growing process between the coach and his newest pupil. However, with Butler’s sordid locker room history a prescient piece of context, it’s hard to write off the report as wholly insignificant.
Immediately, the Woj bomb disquieted Sixers fans everywhere (mainly on Twitter), and they seemed to funnel mostly into two main camps at opposite extremes.