welcome to NBA halftime presented by [Music] Hyundai breaking news out of the Miami Heat our sham Shir reporting that Jimmy Butler is on his way to the Golden State Warriors the deal includes sending Andrew Wiggins Dennis shuder Kyle Anderson and a protected first round pick all to the Miami Heat Udonis Haslam you're a resident member of the Miami Heat what do you think of this trade I love it I love it for both sides but I love the fact that we get a backup point guard we lost Drew Smith a little earlier to injuries we
get an athletic Wing to put next to Tyler herro and Duncan Robinson somebody can guard do it on both ends of the basketball court we love Swiss army knife guys then we get those guys to play with bam and Wiggins has been there he's been a champion he understands what it's about and I also got to give some credit to some credit to the veteran KY Anderson we need a veteran at locker room some leadership you talked about the Miami Heat side I want to talk about the Golden State Warrior side if you think about
what the words have been coming out of Golden State it's been about maximizing Steph Curry's Prime this is the first step that you can see getting Jimmy Butler it comes down to two things for me Clutch time the Golden State Warriors have played the second most clutch Time games they're only 16 and 14 if he can Wing you some games meaning you're playing games where it's decided by a few points that's going to help secondly it's touch time this season Jimmy Butler is averaging his lowest amount of touches which means he's capable of playing off
ball so that's what you're betting on if you're Golden State let's just take a a step back here the Golden State Warriors they're playing tonight against the Utah Jazz and our om Young Muk reporting again reacting in real time to this that reporters were in the locker room for their standard pregame locker room availability when Steve cerr Steph Curry and the players who were on the court warming up all were called into the locker room reporters were asked to leave and you have to assume that that's when these sorts of conversations started to happen again
the news is the Miami Heat are finalizing a deal to send Jimmy Butler to the Golden State Warriors I want to bring in the man who broke this news sham shiran sham how did this deal come together so throughout the last week the Warriors had really focused their attention on Kevin Durant but Kevin Durant had indicated in League circles that he had no desire to go to Golden State and reunite with the Warriors so today in quick order the Warriors in the Miami Heat this is an agreement in principle they are acquiring Jimmy Butler in
a trade Andrew Wiggins Dennis shuder Kyle Anderson and a protected first round pick going to Miami so after a almost 2mon long Saga between the Heat and Jimmy Butler he is now out he's going to a western conference home a hopeful Contender he's going to join Stephen Curry Draymond Green they've been looking all year for a star player to join those two in that Warriors rotation and lineup they have aspirations for a championship they want Jimmy Butler playoff Jimmy to be a big part of it playoff Jimmy is on his way to the Golden State
Warriors Shams thank you very much as we bring it back here inside our Studios Chan do you think that this move gets Golden State close given everything that they had to give up they're inching closer but one name that we have yet to mention is Jonathan kaminga they have been able to retain him based off of the news he was not in the deal which means he was someone that they valued as a future also development you know when you think about the gold state War so having Draymond having step we sort of assumed that
those guys were Untouchable you add Jonathan kaminga to that mix and you bring in Jimmy Butler now you have some pieces you can work with and they might not be done yet they still have buddy they still have Payton they still have opportunity to go get a guy like vich or go get a guy like Bobby poris so they still might not be done yet I think this definitely moves them closer I know what Jimmy is firsthand playoff Jimmy I know what he brings he's definitely going to take some stress off Stu in the half
court when you need to get a bucket and the game slows down especially in the playoffs you can go to Jimmy he's going to be efficient for you there so [Applause] [Music] [Applause]
