I rest when I want, so stop asking

Jimmy Butler lost last night in the Timberwolves' 116-99 loss to the Warriors. He scored 21 points on 23 shot attempts, which included a poor score of 0 to 8 out of 3, and a score of minus 19 when he hit the ground. But thanks to the disruptive saga he created for himself, it was not the subject of his post-game conversations with reporters.

After spending Wednesday's game against the Jazz with "general pain", perhaps, the unhappy star player has asked questions to know if he would even play Minnesota games on Sunday and Monday. Butler said he was ultimately responsible for deciding when he would play and when he would not rely on how his body felt – an incredibly healthy system to say the least. However, when Chris Hines, a Minneapolis Star Tribune writer, pressed him on this issue, Butler became a little annoyed.

"Why are you so worried about my injury?" [Butler] interviewed, then with irritation in his voice, criticized the role of the media in reporting this story, which will enter its eighth week since Butler informed Thibodeau of his demands at a meeting in Los Angeles.

"If this whole discussion did not continue or not and I was sitting down as a result of a wound in the body, you would not ask me that," Butler said. "I know it's true."

"So stop asking me if I will stay away or not. If I'm going to sit outside, you probably will not talk to me the day I leave, but if I do, I'll do it and you can create a story around it with a lot of stuff like you. normally do. "

You have to give it to Butler here. He understood the great secret of sports media: journalists are only interested in [checks notes] remarkable stories. It will surely be a blow for those who will cover the future matches of the Timberwolves, and Butler's absences will never be more important.

Seriously, it's pretty amazing that Minnesota officials have let this mess go on. Allowing a superstar to call the pitchers when it comes to its availability game by game is one thing, but it becomes another when this superstar also holds your organization hostage for the first ticket . Worse, the longer it lasts, the more a player like Karl-Anthony Cities reaches the point of no return when it is stunted growth. Congratulations to Tom Thibodeau for staying competitive, I guess.