Jimmy Butler

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the American table tennis player, see Jim Butler .

Jimmy Butler
Player information
Full name	Jimmy Butler III
birthday	14th September 1989 (age 30)
place of birth	Houston , Texas , United States
size	201 cm
position	Shooting Guard / Small Forward
college	Tyler Junior College / Marquette University
NBA draft	2011 , 30th pick , Chicago Bulls
Club information
society	Miami Heat
league	NBA
Jersey number	22nd
Clubs as active
2011–2017 Chicago Bulls 2017–2018 Minnesota Timberwolves 2018–2019 Philadelphia 76ers Since 2019 Miami Heat 0
National team
Since 02016	United States

Jimmy Butler III (born September 14, 1989 in Houston , Texas ) is an American basketball player who is currently under contract with the Miami Heat in the NBA .

Butler has been an NBA All-Star five times in his career and was named NBA Most Improved Player in 2015. With Team USA he also won the gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games .

youth

Butler's father left the family when Butler was a toddler. At the age of 13 his mother showed no interest in him either and put him outside the door. In a summer basketball league before his senior year at Tomball High School, he was spotted playing a three-point match by Jordan Leslie, a football and basketball player at the school, and the two became friends. As a player at Tomball High, Butler averaged 19 points and 8 rebounds per game. In the 2006/07 season he was voted the most valuable player in his team.

college

After high school, Butler went to Tyler Junior College in Tyler . After his first season he could have gone to the University of Kentucky , where there was a high probability that he could have made the direct jump to the NBA, but he decided on Marquette University because he saw the best chance of a good academic degree there . In his freshman year he achieved an average of 5.6 points and 4 rebounds per game. For the 2009-10 season, Butler received the All-Big East Honorable Mention . He finished his senior year with 15.7 points, 2.3 assists and 6.1 rebounds per game.

NBA career

Chicago Bulls (2011-2017)

Butler was selected by the Chicago Bulls as the 30th choice in the 2011 NBA Draft . In his rookie year he was rarely used and ended the season with an average of just 2.6 points per game.

After Chicago Bulls veteran Luol Deng was out with an injury, Butler was given the opportunity to play more often and prove his skills. On January 19, 2013 Butler played for the first time in the starting lineup in the 85:82 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies . Despite this defeat, Butler delivered one of the best games of his career to date. Furthermore, teammate Richard Hamilton could not live up to the head coach's expectations and Butler secured a permanent position in the team, which he kept after Luol Deng's return. On April 9, 2013 Butler achieved a personal best of 28 points in a 101-98 loss to the Toronto Raptors . He played all 82 games this season and started 20 times.

Butler in a playoff game with the Bulls (2015)

The following season the Swingman finally established himself with the Bulls and started in all 67 games and came up with 13.1 points, 4.9 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.9 steals. He was also called to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team for his good defense work . On December 18, 2014, Butler set another career record with 35 points in defeating the New York Knicks . In 2015, Butler was first invited to the NBA All-Star Game . Butler won the NBA Most Improved Player Award for Most Improved Player of the Season that season. He led the Bulls in scoring with 20.0 points per game and led them into the playoffs. On January 3, 2016, Butler broke the Bulls record for the most points in one half - in the second half of the game against the Toronto Raptors (115-113), he scored 40 points, one more than previous record holder Michael Jordan . On January 14, 2016, Butler set a personal career record of 53 points in the 115-111 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers . Michael Jordan recently scored that many points in the Bulls jersey. Butler was re-elected All-Star in 2016, but was forced to sit out due to a knee injury.

At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he won the gold medal with the US selection. He started the 2016/17 NBA season with the Bulls . The Bulls were reinforced with Rajon Rondo , Robin Lopez and Dwyane Wade . However, due to internal discrepancies, the team only came in eighth position in the east. In a game against the Charlotte Hornets on January 2, 2017, Butler scored 52 points, missing his previous season record by one point. At that time there were a lot of rumors about Butler. Nevertheless, Butler achieved the best points yield of his career with an average of 23.9 points.

Minnesota Timberwolves (2017-2018)

As part of the 2017 NBA draft , Butler was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves . In return, Kris Dunn , Zach LaVine and the draft rights to Lauri Markkanen moved to the Bulls. At the Wolves, Butler meets his former trainer Tom Thibodeau . On July 15, it was announced that he was not extending his contract with the Wolves by four years, but wanted to try his luck in the Free Agency in 2019.

Moved to the Philadelphia 76ers (since 2018)

Butler was transferred to the Philadelphia 76ers a few games after the start of the 2018/19 NBA season for Dario Saric , Jerryd Bayless and Robert Covington .

Awards

• 5 × NBA All-Star : 2015–2018, 2020
• 2 × All-NBA Third Team : 2017, 2018
• 4 × NBA All-Defensive Second Team : 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018
• NBA Most Improved Player Award 2015
• Olympic gold medal 2016 Rio de Janeiro

NBA statistics

Legend
GP	Matches played (Games Played)	GS	Games from the beginning (Games started)	MPG	Graduated minutes per game (Minutes per game)
FG%	Throw rate from the field (field goal percentage)	3P%	Throwing quota three-point throws (3-point field-goal percentage)	FT%	Free throw rate (free-throw percentage)
RPG	Rebounds per game (rebounds per game)	APG	Assists per game (assists per game)	SPG	Steals per game (steals per game)
BPG	Blocks per game (blocks per game)	PPG	Points per game (points per game)	FAT	Career record

Regular season

season	team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2011-12	Chicago	42	0	8.5	.405	.182	.768	1.3	.3	.3	.1	2.6
2012–13	Chicago	82	20th	26.0	.467	.381	.803	4.0	1.4	1.0	.4	8.6
2013-14	Chicago	67	67	38.7	.397	.283	.769	4.9	2.6	1.9	.5	13.1
2014–15	Chicago	65	65	38.7	.462	.378	.834	5.8	3.3	1.8	.6	20.0
2015–16	Chicago	67	67	36.9	.454	.311	.831	5.3	4.8	1.6	.6	21.0
2016–17	Chicago	76	75	37.0	.455	.367	.865	6.2	5.5	1.9	.4	23.9
2017-18	Minnesota	59	59	36.7	.474	.350	.854	5.3	4.9	2.0	.4	22.2
2018–19	Minnesota	10	10	36.1	.471	.378	.787	5.2	4.3	2.4	1.0	21.3
2018–19	Philadelphia	55	55	33.2	.461	.338	.868	5.3	4.0	1.8	0.5	18.2
total		523	418	32.9	.454	.341	.835	4.9	3.5	1.6	.5	16.7

Play-offs

season	team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2011-12	Chicago	3	0	1.3				0	0	0	0	0
2012–13	Chicago	12	12	40.8	.435	.405	.818	5.2	2.7	1.3	0.5	13.3
2013-14	Chicago	5	5	43.6	.386	.300	.783	5.2	2.2	1.2	0	13.6
2014–15	Chicago	12	12	42.2	.441	.389	.819	5.6	3.2	2.4	0.8	22.9
2016–17	Chicago	6th	6th	39.8	.426	.261	.809	7.3	4.3	1.7	0.8	22.7
2017-18	Minnesota	5	5	34.0	.444	.471	.833	6.0	4.0	0.8	0.2	15.8
2018–19	Philadelphia	12	12	35.1	.451	.267	.875	6.1	5.2	1.4	0.6	19.4
total		55	52	37.2	.436	.350	.829	5.5	3.4	1.5	0.5	17.3

Web links

Commons : Jimmy Butler (basketball)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Jimmy Butler - player profile on NBA.com
• Jimmy Butler - player profile on basketball-reference.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jimmy Butler finds a new home, hope published on June 18, 2011 on sports.espn.go.com (English)
2. ↑ From Zero to Hero - The Story of Jimmy Butler was published on August 31, 2013 on courtreview.de
3. ↑ Bulls' Jimmy Butler eager to embrace a greater role published on July 13, 2012 on nba.com (English)
4. ↑ Game info: Grizzlies 85, Bulls 82 ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. published on January 20, 2013 on nba.com (English) 
5. ↑ Game info: Raptors 101, Bulls 98 ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. published on April 10, 2013 on nba.com (English) 
6. ↑ Player profile on NBA.com ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. published on nba.com (English) 
7. ↑ Butler scores 35, Bulls beat Knicks 103-97 ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ The all-star teams are complete
9. ↑ Butler is the Most Improved Player
10. ↑ Chicago Bulls vs. Toronto Raptors. (No longer available online.) NBA.com, Jan 3, 2016, archived from the original on Jan 3, 2016 ; accessed on January 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ sport1.de: Jimmy Butler with 53 points in the victory of the Chicago Bull against the Philadelphia 76ers
12. ^ Butler has 52 to help Bulls top Walker, Hornets
13. ↑ Hunter Felt: NBA draft: blockbuster Jimmy Butler trade makes Wolves the big winners . In: The Guardian . June 23, 2017, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed June 23, 2017]).
14. ↑ 5 questions about the trade from Jimmy Butler to the Sixers: The process becomes the progress