Quavo won the the Ruffles Celebrity All-Star game MVP. Spencer Dinwiddie won the Taco Bell Skills Challenge. Devin Booker won the JBL Three-Point Contest. Donovan Mitchell won the Verizon Slam Dunk Contest. LeBron James won his 3rd All-Star Game MVP dropping 29 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists. All that stuff is great.
The real winner is Minnesota Timberwolves small forward Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler was an All-Star this year for fourth year in a row. He is averaging 22.4 points per game, 5.5 rebounds, 5 assists and 1.9 steals. He is one of the best two-way players in the league, capable of scoring 30 points while locking up the other teams best wing or guard at the same time.
None of those points are why Jimmy Butler is the real winner. He is the real winner because he didn’t have to do ANYTHING during All-Star weekend. He got to be in Los Angeles, CA where the weather was in the 70s over the weekend.
He got to clown around with TNT reporter David Aldridge and Toronto Raptors’ All-Stars Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan.
He got to practice handshakes with a young fan before the game.
He got courtside seats to watch some of the best athletes in the world duke it out in the most competitive All-Star game in recent memory. Mind you, Jimmy Butler was picked as an All-Star reserve. He wasn’t just there to watch the game. He was picked to PLAY in the game. Yet Jimmy Butler played exactly the same amount of minutes as I did. And you know what, that is entirely ok. He got $25,000 to sit on the bench and cheer on Team Steph. Absolutely nothing but respect for that finesse. He did it all without playing a single minute.
During the game they mentioned he was a “bit under the weather.”
Twitter was not buying it.
Jimmy Butler got to do what everyone else was doing on Saturday night in LA. He went out on the town and had a good time. He came into “work” the next day and said I’m not feeling too hot you go ahead and do this without me.
He probably told Houston Rockets head coach Mike D’Antoni, who was coaching Team Steph for the game, something along the lines of, “Be a REAL shame if I didn’t play any minutes in the All-Star game, a real shame.”
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Although officially listed on the Box Score as DNP – Illness, it really should have said, DNP – Hungover, took to many shots of Moscato.
Lou Williams, the standout shooting guard for the Los Angles Clippers who had the numbers to make the All-Star team but was one of the snubs, was none to pleased when he saw Jimmy Butler play exactly zero minutes in the game.
Much like the 1972 Miami Dolphins, Los Angeles’s nightlife is confirmed undefeated.
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