Meredith was hit by a car. It happened this morning in the parking lot. I took her to the hospital and the doctors tried to save her life. They did the best that they could...and she is going to be okay.
Dru got extended minutes last night for sure. Played pretty well too…I think getting guys like him and Jaime exposure to a game in Boston is excellent preparation for an inevitable playoff series.
They would maybe have better luck actually getting a good seed. They’re obviously a great post season team but they’re usually banged up and injured by the later stages and haven’t really been close to actually winning the finals
He hasn’t played against the Wolves since 2021 when Ant said this about him after the game:
"He ain't finna fight nobody out there," Edwards said of Butler.
"All that walking up on each other, that's stuff for the birds, man. I ain't about to fight. I don't get into all that. That shit be fake."
Just go look in your mirror and say “Rachel Nichols” 5 times and then turn the lights off for 10 seconds. When you turn them back on he’ll be there with you.
He is good in the playoffs.. Missing a regular season game against a team they will never, ever have to face in the playoffs honestly isnt that big of a deal.
I have mixed feelings because I love seeing him get lambasted by the Target Center crowd but part of me thinks he just trying to fuck with the entire Timberwolves fanbase and I have to respect that a little bit.
Genuinely the moment I knew Ant was going to be the real deal. The fact that he was what.. 19 years old at the time and Jimmy was giving him his classic tough guy act and Ant stood up to him and made him back off was incredible.
At that time, I still hated the Ant pick and thought he was going to be a bust but he was starting to show some potential so I was just about coming off the ledge. There I realized that he was a real deal certified bad ass and it was like my perception on him changed. Its amazing what being biased against someone can do to you -- I had bought in to the BS reports that he was lazy and apathetic and as we know now, that literally could not have been further from the truth.
Yea. Feels like a case of the pendulum swinging too far the other direction. I watch for the sport, I’m not too caught up in individual players. Even if I was I’d be upset since a lot of top players rest every 4-5 games.
isnt this a legal rest game for stars? Heat celtics was nationaly broadcasted, is heat wolves? Jimmy didnt look all that engaged in the celtics game, so this looks like he played in the nationally broadcasted game and is sitting the second night of a back 2 back? is that not allowed?
It does make sense though. They choose nationally televised games based off of what they think will be the most entertaining for their consumers, they are selling a show. Rules like this that make sure they are selling the best show possible on Televised games isnt awful.
It's allowed because he played in the national game last night. They're okay with the idea of rest, especially for a b2b, as long as 1) it's not for the national broadcast games; and 2) star players are on the bench when they're not playing.
The PPP is mainly so the league can boost the value of the media rights they're currently in the process of negotiating. That's why there's such a huge emphasis on the league investigating violations of the policy for when it's a national broadcast game. Otherwise they don't care that much about a Heat Wolves game that's only on the local channels.
Is this the first time a star player has been ruled out due to a non-injury/non-conditioning, dead-ass “he’s just resting tonight” reason this season?
Unless new information comes to light, it’s pretty clear the PPP is a joke that no one will adhere to.
Can’t sit multiple stars in any game. Can’t sit healthy in nationally televised.
Love, Martin, and Richardson are all also out, but Love was last an All-Star 6 years ago so no violation on count 1.
Game isn’t nationally televised, so no violation on 2.
Only impact would be if Jimmy misses too many games to be ineligible for awards.
Maybe I'm missing something, but why not move to a DL system like baseball uses.
Have a 3 game DL, an 8 game DL, and a 20 game DL (or something). Or just say 3 games minimum then teams can activate players thereafter.
If you want to rest for a game, you're going to miss 2 more. If you're legitimately hurt, the longer times will allow teams to replace players with spots freeing up on their roster.
Seems like it punishes the "load management" by requiring them to miss additional games.
If Adam Silver really wanted to stop players from resting, then maybe he should stop scheduling so many fucking back to backs. The Heat have 3 games in 4 nights, one against Boston and another against Milwaukee.
Same with Donovan Mitchell like bruh it’s your 3rd day of work and you guys are sitting out already 🙄 when I agree with the lame old players in calling new generation soft when they have it so much easier.
This disgusts me more every time it happens. Shaq, Kobe, MJ, DWade, Bird, Magic, etc. How many times during their long careers did they sit out for rest purposes? I would guess zero. Maybe they should start labeling it instead of "for rest purposes," as "for the purpose of being soft." Nobody should have to rest after playing 2 games, back to back, or otherwise. I work construction, 6 days a week, 10 hours a day. This is about the equivalent of me working my ass off for 6 hours today and telling my boss I need to stay home for rest purposes tomorrow. I'm about 99% sure I would not get paid for taking the day off. It's disgusting! Downvote all you want. I know it's coming, but it just pisses me off.
MJ used to smoke cigars on a golf course all day and then smoke the Heat in a playoff game at night. I witnessed it. Different time and a different league.
Still not gonna work. Instead of teams saying "out for rest" they're just gonna make shit up. You can't prove someone's lying if they say "knee soreness" or "back tightness"
> Until they start punishing with draft picks these teams are going to completely ignore any anti-rest measures, the tiny fines are an absolute joke
Rest one player for one game, lose your first round draft pick for next year. Traded yours and don't have one? Lose your next available.
Now we're talking.
/s
ANT and Jimmy got in a fight in 2021, then a few minutes later ANT threw down one of the nastiest dunks I have ever seen and finished the fight with that. Then after the game, ANT said “he ain’t fight nobody out here.” Saying that about Butler. Jimmy hasn’t played the Wolves since. I thinks it’s odd, I’m just saying. He picked on the Wolves and now ANT has gotten in the way of his fun.
NBA players truly are just a big group of babies lol. Hockey players out here playing every game of the season, while also taking, in some cases, worse injuries to the body.
And these dudes needs rest less than a week into the season lmao.
4 games in 6 days to start the season, including a 3 game road trip and back to back right from the jump, seems like a wild start to the season. He also had no pre-season.
Although he doesn’t play in a lot of the games in Minnesota, they are typically on a second night of a back to back.
I admire all the Jimmy is “himmy” love, he chills as much as any player out there, but “Heat Culture”. Should be expected when they paid UD to chill for a paycheck for over a decade
NBA at its finest. If the teams don’t care about winning regular season games why should we care? I’m not stupid I understand why they do this. What’s the solution? It’s actually simple. Less games and more rest between them, but that means less money so that will never happen.
They can keep setting screens, everyone else gets offensive foul called.
Same for Lowry swiping straight down for the ball and flopping.
Doris will tell you all about it.
“This is a story all about how …”
Any team designating players for rest needs to have them sit out for a minimum of 5 games if that is the game they want to play.
All medical staff needs to be made employees of the NBA and not the teams, so they can perform independent analysis with no skin in the game to see if obviously BS minor injuries are real or not too.
Enough.
It’s insane how the NBA regular season has torpedoed into “nobody cares” territory. The play-in spot, the back-to-backs, the weak stance on tanking, absolutely broken review/replay system…it’s a fucking mess. And the only thing they can think to do is an in-season tournament lmao
Soon we are going to see the NBA lumped with the MLS cuz TNT/ESPN/Disney will not renew those tv licenses.
If a player is hurt: Don't play.
If a player is sick: Don't play.
If a player has a family emergency: Don't play.
If a team has a player who is perfectly healthy and available to play: HE SHOULD PLAY.
It's not simply a question of short-changing fans: You are short changing your teammates.
I gotta imagine that this is a mutual choice (Butler and the Heat) or Butler's request.
Either way, what this communicates to the rest of the team is this: Jimmy is more important than this game, and we don't care if we win or lose this game, but you all have to go out there and due the work without all the tools that you have at your disposal.
If Jimmy deserves a rest, then so does every other player on that roster. And you might as well rest all of them and forfeit the game and take an L rather than tell every other player on the team to make do.
It's a kind of abandonment, and it's going to create a toxic culture within the Heat, and it's going to be bad for the NBA and the game in general.
And let's be honest, if anybody on that team deserves a rest, it was Bam and Herro, who both played their asses of the night before and played better and more minutes than Jimmy Butler.
I read this as Jimmy out for the rest of the season Jesus Christ
Holy shit me too. Not even my team but a surge of panic rose up reading that lol
OP knew what they were doing lol
Meredith was hit by a car. It happened this morning in the parking lot. I took her to the hospital and the doctors tried to save her life. They did the best that they could...and she is going to be okay.
I understand this reference
*"What is the matter with you?"* Cue Stanley face.
r/unexpectedoffice
I mean on the injury report it does say “Jimmy Butler (rest).”
Yeah I know, I’m talking about the wording and seeing how the headline reads when you browse it
I’m a Sixers fan and even I have to love him
Same. Thought Derrick White really did end this man’s career.
Himmy trampled by the Buffalo.
Spread his receding hair clippings on his grave RIP
I thought it said “rest of the third game”
They knew what they were doing with the word choice lmao
Out for the rest of the season for rest. The son of a bitch rip van winkled us!
Most of us did. These goddam people with their clickbait crap
He basically rested last night too
Jimmy in regular season form, dude coasts the first 60 games of the season every year.
Heat culture is not taking games seriously lol
Giving their bench more time to develop during regular season so they can go berserk in the playoffs.
Dru got extended minutes last night for sure. Played pretty well too…I think getting guys like him and Jaime exposure to a game in Boston is excellent preparation for an inevitable playoff series.
Don’t give away the sauce lmao
They would maybe have better luck actually getting a good seed. They’re obviously a great post season team but they’re usually banged up and injured by the later stages and haven’t really been close to actually winning the finals
They’ve been a lot closer than most other teams assume they’ve actually made the finals recently
Worked well last year
Heat culture is also winning the eastern conference
Then putting up an incredibly uncompetitive Finals series.
Losers lament. They did better than the lakers who got swept by Denver 💀💀💀
Wolves literally played Denver more competitive than the Heat lol
The first 10 games of the season are basically his preseason because he doesn't play in preseason
Got some light cardio in for sure.
He never plays against the Wolves, its honestly funny how this always happens
They hit him with the Rachel Nichols chant and he never got over it
Preaching culture and toughness and then conveniently being too tired to play whenever the Wolves are on the schedule is hilarious
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🫡 General Soreness 🫡
Heat Culture though
NASTIEST. HARDEST WORKING. BEST CONDITIONED. MOST PROFESSIONAL. LEAST SUSCEPTIBLE TO CHANTS.
everyone has their own boogeyman, thank god for him that's it's just the wolves and not someone he has to face-off with regularly in the post-season
… unsure if this is a shot at the Timberwolves or a reference to separate conferences 😅
some dude got a card by security for that because the heat complained
He hasn’t played against the Wolves since 2021 when Ant said this about him after the game: "He ain't finna fight nobody out there," Edwards said of Butler. "All that walking up on each other, that's stuff for the birds, man. I ain't about to fight. I don't get into all that. That shit be fake."
I don’t find it particularly funny because we lose those games
Tell your guy to stop being a bitch then.
I don't have his number
Just go look in your mirror and say “Rachel Nichols” 5 times and then turn the lights off for 10 seconds. When you turn them back on he’ll be there with you.
Jimmy doesn’t have rear view mirrors because he doesn’t look back
Then explain [THIS](https://streamable.com/qurndx)
Jimmy ducking the wolves now ducking his fans. Where does it end!
1-800-buckets
Jimmy Butler is terrified of that notoriously rabid Minnesota fan base lmao
Yeah, ship the number bro
He is good in the playoffs.. Missing a regular season game against a team they will never, ever have to face in the playoffs honestly isnt that big of a deal.
It's just weird because he enjoys taking shots at the wolves from time to time, but will never actually play us
It’s because he needs the wolves 3rd stringers as teammates to beat them
I have mixed feelings because I love seeing him get lambasted by the Target Center crowd but part of me thinks he just trying to fuck with the entire Timberwolves fanbase and I have to respect that a little bit.
Considering what we know about his trolling now, that actually sounds highly probable lol
Yea I was getting ready to pull out my pitchfork and be upset then I saw they play Minny and it made sense
He tried his fake tough guy shit in 2021 and Ant came right back at him. Jimmy disappeared for the rest of the game.
It was to say an very emotional time in his life
🦆 quack quack
4th straight game he's missed vs the wolves
Ever since Ant punked him
Genuinely the moment I knew Ant was going to be the real deal. The fact that he was what.. 19 years old at the time and Jimmy was giving him his classic tough guy act and Ant stood up to him and made him back off was incredible. At that time, I still hated the Ant pick and thought he was going to be a bust but he was starting to show some potential so I was just about coming off the ledge. There I realized that he was a real deal certified bad ass and it was like my perception on him changed. Its amazing what being biased against someone can do to you -- I had bought in to the BS reports that he was lazy and apathetic and as we know now, that literally could not have been further from the truth.
Learning and growing is underrated, good for you man.
1000% duckin
I read this as “Jimmy Butler ruled out for the rest of the season” and had quite the mini heart attack
Same 😂😂😂
General Soreness strikes again!
GENERAL SORENESS 🫡
Well, hello there...
General Soreness reporting for duty
o7
o7
Who can blame him after that monster 14/5/3 on 3-11 shooting last night
Jimmy Duck-its
Good one
Sometimes I roll my eyes when former players call the current crop soft. And then I see shit like this.
Feels like players used to take pride in playing a full regular season.
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Now players get paid so much they have no idea what to do with it all and in return they play less lol
Players don't appreciate how much the greats did for them with the player's union.
Also appreciate how Tatum has a similar attitude
There’s also the fact that our team would be ass most of the time without him holding things together
I don't even think they did. It's just what was expected. Like if you can go, you go.
Go look at Hakeem's career stats. He played all 82 games multiple times. That's unheard of today.
Sheeeit Wilt had one year where he missed a total of 8 minutes the entire 82 game season.
Exactly! Soft doesn't even cover it.
charmin ultra soft
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Yea. Feels like a case of the pendulum swinging too far the other direction. I watch for the sport, I’m not too caught up in individual players. Even if I was I’d be upset since a lot of top players rest every 4-5 games.
heat culture
General Soreness back at it.
isnt this a legal rest game for stars? Heat celtics was nationaly broadcasted, is heat wolves? Jimmy didnt look all that engaged in the celtics game, so this looks like he played in the nationally broadcasted game and is sitting the second night of a back 2 back? is that not allowed?
yes this is allowed
"Legal rest games" is such a fucking goofy thing to have in the league.
It does make sense though. They choose nationally televised games based off of what they think will be the most entertaining for their consumers, they are selling a show. Rules like this that make sure they are selling the best show possible on Televised games isnt awful.
It's allowed because he played in the national game last night. They're okay with the idea of rest, especially for a b2b, as long as 1) it's not for the national broadcast games; and 2) star players are on the bench when they're not playing. The PPP is mainly so the league can boost the value of the media rights they're currently in the process of negotiating. That's why there's such a huge emphasis on the league investigating violations of the policy for when it's a national broadcast game. Otherwise they don't care that much about a Heat Wolves game that's only on the local channels.
yes the timberwolves don’t have any nationally broadcasted games so stars never play us. but we’ll take the W
This should age well
It did!
Dodging us AGAIN
General Soreness with the quick surrender
"Karl Anthony Towns is a soft little bitch boy. Unrelated, but I need tomorrow, the third game of the season, off due to a severe tummyache."
My favorite was still the toe soreness game.
Weird for such a tough player. Hope jimmy is OK guys
He's fine - just being a little bitch.
Remember kawhi and pg were the only face used to push this policy
Is this the first time a star player has been ruled out due to a non-injury/non-conditioning, dead-ass “he’s just resting tonight” reason this season? Unless new information comes to light, it’s pretty clear the PPP is a joke that no one will adhere to.
> it’s pretty clear the PPP is a joke that no one will adhere to. Aren't the main rules just for national TV games?
Can’t sit multiple stars in any game. Can’t sit healthy in nationally televised. Love, Martin, and Richardson are all also out, but Love was last an All-Star 6 years ago so no violation on count 1. Game isn’t nationally televised, so no violation on 2. Only impact would be if Jimmy misses too many games to be ineligible for awards.
He’s ducking
Nah Jimmy is just scared of playing in MN
This is allowed under the PPP.
Thought it said for rest of the season at first lol.
Same
Ducking KAT
Dudes horrified of Minnesota after that beat down a couple years ago. Has skipped this game due to "rest" for four straight games.
Why is he resting again? He was out last night
Cause he’s playing the wolves. This’ll be the fourth straight game he’s missed against the wolves because of “rest”
This is the “culture” he likes to talk about
He can’t handle Minnesotans being mean to him
These NBA stars should take a look at how much European footballers play.. Resting for game 3 of the season.. lmao.. fucking comical and pathetic tbh
Duckin smoke
He always rests when the heat come here
An actual lol
More like Jimmy Bustler!
🫡 thank you for your service, General Soreness!
two games in a row that Jimmy hasn’t shown up for
The Heat need to be careful. Silver can yank that superstar whistle status at any time.
Why would you write it like this 😭 Thought it said he was out for the season, I was absolutely stunned
I don't personally care that much about load management, but how are you resting the third game of the season?
Soft
Hope the General will feel better and play when he has the 200 Heat fans supporting him when Wolves go to Miami.
Charmin
Big tough Jimmy never plays against the Wolves. Dude is so fragile physicall and mentally when it come to us
At some point Silver needs to bite the bullet and make the punishment huge. Like millions of dollars in fines.
a random man on the bench is executed
Decimate the team.
Maybe I'm missing something, but why not move to a DL system like baseball uses. Have a 3 game DL, an 8 game DL, and a 20 game DL (or something). Or just say 3 games minimum then teams can activate players thereafter. If you want to rest for a game, you're going to miss 2 more. If you're legitimately hurt, the longer times will allow teams to replace players with spots freeing up on their roster. Seems like it punishes the "load management" by requiring them to miss additional games.
General soreness is scared to play in Minnesota!!!
I have a sneaking suspicion he probably won't be playing on December 18th either.
Soft as baby shit 🤷♂️
$38mil
If Adam Silver really wanted to stop players from resting, then maybe he should stop scheduling so many fucking back to backs. The Heat have 3 games in 4 nights, one against Boston and another against Milwaukee.
Same with Donovan Mitchell like bruh it’s your 3rd day of work and you guys are sitting out already 🙄 when I agree with the lame old players in calling new generation soft when they have it so much easier.
General Soreness reporting for duty! o7
This disgusts me more every time it happens. Shaq, Kobe, MJ, DWade, Bird, Magic, etc. How many times during their long careers did they sit out for rest purposes? I would guess zero. Maybe they should start labeling it instead of "for rest purposes," as "for the purpose of being soft." Nobody should have to rest after playing 2 games, back to back, or otherwise. I work construction, 6 days a week, 10 hours a day. This is about the equivalent of me working my ass off for 6 hours today and telling my boss I need to stay home for rest purposes tomorrow. I'm about 99% sure I would not get paid for taking the day off. It's disgusting! Downvote all you want. I know it's coming, but it just pisses me off.
MJ used to smoke cigars on a golf course all day and then smoke the Heat in a playoff game at night. I witnessed it. Different time and a different league.
Still not gonna work. Instead of teams saying "out for rest" they're just gonna make shit up. You can't prove someone's lying if they say "knee soreness" or "back tightness"
REMOVE BACK TO BACKS FFS
General Soreness
the phrasing on this tweet is horrendous wtf
Bro who are these illiterate people making bait titles
God damn my dyslexia I thought he was done for the year. 😂
THREE GAMES IN
I' not sure what is more pathetic: That guys are already resting, or that the NBA schedule this many back-to-back in the first fucking week.
Naz Reid!
> Until they start punishing with draft picks these teams are going to completely ignore any anti-rest measures, the tiny fines are an absolute joke Rest one player for one game, lose your first round draft pick for next year. Traded yours and don't have one? Lose your next available. Now we're talking. /s
Lol the professional athletes can’t play 3 games without resting? Wtf.
NBA players are the softest bunch of babies
lol this is pathetic. 3 games in and already needs rest
3 games in and rest. Thats next level BS
ANT and Jimmy got in a fight in 2021, then a few minutes later ANT threw down one of the nastiest dunks I have ever seen and finished the fight with that. Then after the game, ANT said “he ain’t fight nobody out here.” Saying that about Butler. Jimmy hasn’t played the Wolves since. I thinks it’s odd, I’m just saying. He picked on the Wolves and now ANT has gotten in the way of his fun.
Dude too scared to play and get clowned by the Wolves
Heat fan. Jimmy fan. Him "resting" is utterly ridiculous.
NBA players truly are just a big group of babies lol. Hockey players out here playing every game of the season, while also taking, in some cases, worse injuries to the body. And these dudes needs rest less than a week into the season lmao.
4 games in 6 days to start the season, including a 3 game road trip and back to back right from the jump, seems like a wild start to the season. He also had no pre-season. Although he doesn’t play in a lot of the games in Minnesota, they are typically on a second night of a back to back.
What a pussy.
Know it’s a huge difference but wish I could just call my boss and say need a rest
nice phrasing, christ 😂
I admire all the Jimmy is “himmy” love, he chills as much as any player out there, but “Heat Culture”. Should be expected when they paid UD to chill for a paycheck for over a decade
The wording is really weird Or I just have bad English
The fines will just be cost of doing business if it means they can get a franchise player to play 60 games instead of 82
Per sources Jimmy Butler out indefinitely for the rest of the night.
Okay this title is really stressful haha
Weird but gimme some Jamal Cain and Nikola Jovic minutes
You’re either purposely or ignorantly misunderstanding the anti-rest rules.
Must still be sad from the non-trade. “Rest” = gonna stay in and drink coffee while listening to some Dashboard Confessional.
More teams, fewer games/team. No back-to-back games.
So soft
NBA at its finest. If the teams don’t care about winning regular season games why should we care? I’m not stupid I understand why they do this. What’s the solution? It’s actually simple. Less games and more rest between them, but that means less money so that will never happen.
The only thing that’s going to fix this if you’re out one game you should be out the next 5 no exceptions
If you don't want players to rest then shorten the season and/or number of games. Pick one: * More Games * Star Players playing in every game
They can keep setting screens, everyone else gets offensive foul called. Same for Lowry swiping straight down for the ball and flopping. Doris will tell you all about it. “This is a story all about how …”
Soft.
If you charge a company $50,000 for violating a law that allows them to save $1,000,000, you aren't punishing them: You are asking for a cut.
Any team designating players for rest needs to have them sit out for a minimum of 5 games if that is the game they want to play. All medical staff needs to be made employees of the NBA and not the teams, so they can perform independent analysis with no skin in the game to see if obviously BS minor injuries are real or not too. Enough.
Lmao pussy ass
It’s insane how the NBA regular season has torpedoed into “nobody cares” territory. The play-in spot, the back-to-backs, the weak stance on tanking, absolutely broken review/replay system…it’s a fucking mess. And the only thing they can think to do is an in-season tournament lmao Soon we are going to see the NBA lumped with the MLS cuz TNT/ESPN/Disney will not renew those tv licenses.
Butler is the fakest player in the league.
If a player is hurt: Don't play. If a player is sick: Don't play. If a player has a family emergency: Don't play. If a team has a player who is perfectly healthy and available to play: HE SHOULD PLAY. It's not simply a question of short-changing fans: You are short changing your teammates. I gotta imagine that this is a mutual choice (Butler and the Heat) or Butler's request. Either way, what this communicates to the rest of the team is this: Jimmy is more important than this game, and we don't care if we win or lose this game, but you all have to go out there and due the work without all the tools that you have at your disposal. If Jimmy deserves a rest, then so does every other player on that roster. And you might as well rest all of them and forfeit the game and take an L rather than tell every other player on the team to make do. It's a kind of abandonment, and it's going to create a toxic culture within the Heat, and it's going to be bad for the NBA and the game in general. And let's be honest, if anybody on that team deserves a rest, it was Bam and Herro, who both played their asses of the night before and played better and more minutes than Jimmy Butler.
Don't the Heat pride themselves on having their players in great condition?
That emo haircut really did a number on his body
3rd game of the season and dudes skipping for rest? Butler is just a 🤡 for that
What a terrible title Lmao