SAN FRANCISCO — In the minutes after the Golden State Warriors wrapped up a five-game trip in Brooklyn earlier this month, Jimmy Butler pulled Steve Kerr aside for a brief conversation in the visiting locker room.
The message: He wasn’t flying back to San Francisco with the team. He needed to fly separately to Miami.
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“To pick my kids up,” Butler said.
As he did occasionally with the Miami Heat — in an arrangement permitted early in his time with the organization and grumbled about later — Butler will not stay at the team hotel during the Warriors’ four-day stop in Miami this week. It’s a rare in-season chance for him to
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