Jimmy Butler III is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association. He was drafted with the 30th overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls. His father abandoned the family when he was an infant, and his mother kicked him out of the house at 13 years old. Butler is a five-time NBA All-Star, a three-time All-NBA Team honoree and a four-timeNBA All-Defensive Team Honoree. In 2015, he was named the NBA Most Improved Player.
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Jimmy Butler III is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association. He was drafted with the 30th overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls. Butler is a five-time NBA All-Star, a three-time All-NBA Team honoree and a four-timeNBA All-Defensive Team Honoree. In 2015, he was named the NBA Most Improved Player. Butler’s father abandoned the family when he was an infant, and his mother kicked him out of the house at 13 years old. He maintains a close relationship with his parents, saying, ‘I still talk to my family. We love each other. That’s never going to change.\’ He was not heavily recruited coming out of high school and chose to attend Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas. Butler was considered a two-star recruit by 247Sports.com, and he was listed as the No. 127 junior college prospect in 2008. He played for Marquette University from 2008 to 2011. He scored a career-high 26 points against the Memphis Grizzlies on December 30, 2010. He set a franchise record when he played 60 minutes in a game against the Orlando Magic on December 20, 2013. He averaged a career high 38 points per game, which ranked first in the NBA in the first half of the 2013–14 season. He also scored a then-high 28 points against Toronto Raptors on April 9, 2014. He recorded his first career career high with 22 points and 14 rebounds against the New York Knicks on December 14, 2014, and a season-high 30 points and a triple-overtime game against Orlando on December 16, 2014,.
He averaged 20 points and 20 rebounds in the 2012–13 season against the Magic, Orlando Magic, and the Knicks. He has been named to the NBA’s all-defensive team three times and the All-Rookie Team three times. He is also a three time All-Stars and the 2014-15 All-Defense Team All-Tournament Team. He plays for the Golden State Warriors and the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA NBA G League. His father left the family at the age of 13, when Butler was living with his mother and stepfather in Tomball, Texas, and moved to a different house every few weeks for a few weeks at a time before moving to another house. Butler says his mother told him: ‘I don’t like the look of you. You gotta go. You gotta leave. I couldn’t believe it. I don’t hold grudges. She just did stuff like that’ He played one year of college basketball for Tyler Junior college before transferring to Marquette. As a senior in 2010–11, he averaged 15. 7 points pergame and earned an All-Big East Honorable Mention for the second straight year. He saw limited opportunities in his rookie year, playing 42 games during the lockout-shortened 2011–12 season. The following season, he played all 82 games for the Bulls.
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