It started, as it almost always does, with a tweet by Adrian “Woj” Wojnarowski, the former ESPN sports reporter. It was in the middle of October, in the afternoon, after Jimmy Butler’s infamous practice session, where he took the bench players on his then-team, the Minnesota Timberwolves, and beat the starting group. The starters, which included then-franchise cornerstone Karl-Anthony Towns, were left with aghast over Butler’s defiance and triumph. He guarded several players, including the talented-but-sensitive Towns, and screamed in the direction of general manager Scott Layden saying “you ___ need me! You can’t win without me.”
At the time this happened, in 2018, Butler had requested a
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