Jimmy Butler seemingly had a message for the NBA after he was traded to the Warriors on Wednesday night.
The NBA star was dealt in a four-team trade that involved the Heat, Warriors, Jazz and Pistons, according to multiple reports.
Andrew Wiggins, P.J. Tucker, Kyle Anderson and a protected first-round pick are headed to Miami as part of the deal that ends the long-running saga between Butler and the Heat.
After news of the trade broke online, Butler posted a song on his social media accounts with the caption, “Welcome to the wild wild west.”
The posts also included a music note emoji.
Rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer Breland was tagged in the post on Instagram.
It’s not clear who the credits belong to on the song with country vibes, though it could be from a country music project that Butler has been working on with Breland.
The song features lyrics that could be perceived as a signal of what’s to come for him with his new team.
One verse of the song went, “Try to put a bounty on my head and whole lotta people gonna wind up dead. Anything goes at the end of the road, ain’t nobody bout to slow me down.”
Butler had reportedly preferred to go to the Suns, but the deal that sent him to Golden State is sure to be enough to make Butler happy to be out of South Beach, where things between him and the Heat had deteriorated.
While Miami had initially shot down notions that they would trade Butler — with team president Pat Riley even putting out a statement saying as much in December — they had to do an about-face when it became clear that Butler did not want to play for the organization any longer.
In the weeks that followed, Butler was suspended three times for various reasons related to “conduct detrimental to the team,” which included missing a team flight and walking out of a morning shootaround after he was informed he wouldn’t be in the starting lineup.
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