{"id":91011,"date":"2025-08-18T04:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T04:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/91011\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T04:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T04:04:11","slug":"draymond-green-trolls-critics-after-jimmy-butler-haywood-highsmith-trades-by-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/91011\/","title":{"rendered":"Draymond Green Trolls Critics After Jimmy Butler, Haywood Highsmith Trades by Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green called out criticism of teammate Jimmy Butler after Butler’s former team, the Miami Heat, traded forward Haywood Highsmith. <\/p>\n

“Y\u2019all(internet experts) wanted Jimmy to come off the bench behind dude, and 5 months later The Heat traded him for a bag of chips,” Green wrote on Threads<\/a>. “That\u2019s wild.”<\/p>\n

Green also reacted to the Heat moving Highsmith on his Instagram story, which elicited a response from Butler. <\/p>\n

On Friday, Miami dealt<\/a> Highsmith and a 2032 second-round pick to the Brooklyn Nets in exchange for a 2026 protected second-round selection.<\/p>\n

The Heat previously moved Butler to the Warriors in a blockbuster deal<\/a> on Feb. 5.<\/p>\n

Prior to the six-time All-Star’s change of scenery, Butler received a\u00a0suspension<\/a>\u00a0from the Heat after he told reporters that he wanted to find his joy playing basketball and “probably” wouldn’t be able to do so in Miami.<\/p>\n

He eventually returned to the team, but was handed another suspension once he walked out of a Heat shootaround after being informed the team was planning to start Highsmith over him moving forward (via ESPN’s\u00a0Shams Charania<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Following Butler’s trade to Golden State, the Warriors thrived.<\/p>\n

The team owned a record of 23-7 in his 30 regular-season appearances as a member of the organization.<\/p>\n

Butler averaged 17.9 points, 5.9 assists, 5.5 rebounds and 1.7 steals per game on 47.6\/27.9\/87.0 shooting splits with the Warriors.<\/p>\n

As for Highsmith, he ended the year by averaging 6.5 points and 3.4 rebounds per game while shooting 45.8 percent from the field and 38.2 percent from three-point territory. His departure from Miami contained a financial incentive, as the team moved back under the luxury-tax threshold by trading him to Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

As the Heat continue to navigate through the offseason, Green is still happy that Butler ended up with Golden State during its 2024-25 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green called out criticism of teammate Jimmy Butler after Butler’s former team, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-91011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}