Sometimes, at the start of a relationship, you can see its end. When the Miami Heat acquired Jimmy Butler, in 2019, what did they expect would happen? “I like controversy,” Butler said to reporters, in 2017, when he was a member of the Chicago Bulls. Right around that time, he was fined for a locker-room argument in which he questioned the younger players’ desire to win. He felt underappreciated, and he reportedly called the team’s head coach, Fred Hoiberg, “soft.” Butler was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves after the Bulls were knocked out of the playoffs. “I feed off of confrontation,” he told the basketball writer Michael Pina that summer. “It makes me go.”
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