Jimmy Butler Watch

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It is interesting.  I wonder if that is really limiting his market, in addition to satisfying Miami's wants.   It is about money for Butler and I am not sure how many teams would be willing to max him out to his liking on years and money.

Nobody will. This is like the Harden situation, where he eventually opted in, cause there was nothing for him in FA. Butler obviously is a more volatile character and when he found out the Heat (and literally nobody else) wants to pay a 36 year old 52M for an additional year, let alone multiple years, he started to throw his toys. Now the Heat simply said we won´t pay you at all. 

This brings us to an interesting situation with Kyrie. How much do you want to pay him? If he opts out of the last year of his deal (42M), I honestly think 120/3 is about it. That will take him to age 35. You don´t want to him more than 15-20M per year after that and no longer than two years.