It seems NBA teams finally received the ‘hire more UConn basketball alums’ notebook I sent them back in 2014. Just 48 hours after Jim Calhoun’s former-student manager took the reigns at the Oklahoma City Thunder, former UConn men’s basketball star Caron Butler was hired by the Miami Heat as an assistant coach.
Butler, 40 (yikes) was a decorated 14-year veteran, earning two All-Star appearances (2007, 2008) with the Washington Wizards and a ring in 2011 with the Dallas Mavericks. Although he bounced around a lot, playing on nine teams, the former Big East Player of the Year in 2002 always was a steady source of scoring and rebounding from the small forward position.