Remember when everyone wanted to trade the farm for Jimmy Butler?

[Chris22]

LOL

[rochrist]

He is what I thought he was.

[More Banners]

He's the Pippen.

[Granath]

Not everybody.

I received a lot of flack by saying that the asking price was too much.

[Ogaju]

lol not everybody, I could not understand why the so-called experts here wanted to trade multiple #1s and our starting players for Butler.

Some were proposing trades like Bkn 17 and 18 plus AB, Smart, Brown and Crowder. I was just stunned by some of the trade proposals for Butler.

[mr. dee]

He's the Pippen.

He's not even close to Pippen. Pippen led a Jordan-less Bulls to 55 wins and one playoff series win.

[chilidawg]

I came away impressed with Butler.  He's playing on a team whose only other option is the rapidly declining DWade.  He plays hard, defends, rebounds and takes on the scoring load.  He's not a top 5 player, but is on the cusp of top 10.

The trade proposals thrown around in this thread were mostly from rumours about what the Bulls wanted, not what people here wanted to give up.

I still think he's worth a Nets pick, Crowder or Bradley, and someone like Rozier.  He'd be a great fit on the Celtics

[Ogaju]

I came away impressed with Butler.  He's playing on a team whose only other option is the rapidly declining DWade.  He plays hard, defends, rebounds and takes on the scoring load.  He's not a top 5 player, but is on the cusp of top 10.

The trade proposals thrown around in this thread were mostly from rumours about what the Bulls wanted, not what people here wanted to give up.

I still think he's worth a Nets pick, Crowder or Bradley, and someone like Rozier.  He'd be a great fit on the Celtics

He is not worth the Nets 17 Bradley and Rozier.... no way !!!! Any one of those players could be as good as Butler.

[chambers]

Butler would be an amazing addition to our team. Imagine him replacing Bradley and giving us some actual scoring at the SG spot or SF spot.

He'd be unstoppable on a team with some good shooters and good defenders around him.

Back to the topic, what was considered 'the farm' ? I wouldn't trade the #1 or Jaylen Brown for him. But I'd consider the BRK pick if its #3 or #4 + Bradley or Rozier etc...

[CelticSooner]

There are very few guys in the league you trade the farm for and he isn't one of them. I still would like to see him in green if the price is right tho.

[RJ87]

Butler would be an amazing addition to our team. Imagine him replacing Bradley and giving us some actual scoring at the SG spot or SF spot.

He'd be unstoppable on a team with some good shooters and good defenders around him.

Exactly. He played this season next to non-shooters like a Rondo, the corpse of DWade, a bunch of scrubs and still put up one of the best seasons in the Eastern conference.

But I'm crazy. Long live Jae Crowder and Terry Rozier. They will guide us to banner 18.

[Chris22]

Thank God for Danny Ainge.

[CelticsElite]

Jimmy isn't capable of leading a team anywhere. Glad we don't have him

[green_bballers13]

Butler would be an amazing addition to our team. Imagine him replacing Bradley and giving us some actual scoring at the SG spot or SF spot.

He'd be unstoppable on a team with some good shooters and good defenders around him.

Exactly. He played this season next to non-shooters like a Rondo, the corpse of DWade, a bunch of scrubs and still put up one of the best seasons in the Eastern conference.

But I'm crazy. Long live Jae Crowder and Terry Rozier. They will guide us to banner 18.

To be fair, I think it would cost more than Crowder and Rozier.

Though I'm very interested in Butler, I'm not sure why he 1) called Marcus out in the media and 2) seemed to play worse after. He had some amazing shots in the series, but I didn't see him dominate like top players in this league.

The problem w/ trading a BKN pick is that we're speeding up the process and shortening our window for a championship. I still think patience and the process>trying to beat the current Cavs and Golden State teams. They're not unbeatable, but its tough to accumulate as many top tier players.

[More Banners]

He's the Pippen.

He's not even close to Pippen. Pippen led a Jordan-less Bulls to 55 wins and one playoff series win.

What I meant is that Jimmy is the #2 guy. Not to be confused with being the #1 guy.

Don't trade the farm for a #2.