MINNEAPOLIS — Ahead of the Utah Jazz’s season-opening victory in Sacramento on Wednesday, Oct. 17, Jae Crowder decided to place a FaceTime call to a close friend.
He hit up Jimmy Butler.
“We talked for about 40 minutes on FaceTime,” Crowder told the Deseret News.
Once the news broke of Butler’s trade saga with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Crowder had to check on his former Marquette University teammate to make sure things were OK with him.
“He knows it’s unfair, I know it’s unfair and players know it’s unfair, but at the same time it’s nothing you really can do besides state what you said,” Crowder said of Butler.