Jimmy Butler among the five players of Stephen a to be looked at in 2025 – NBC Sports Bay Area and California
The Warriors are approaching their first season complete with Jimmy Butler in the mix after a size of the half -season of success.
Everyone, including Espn’s Stephen A. Smith, will keep an eye on as Butler Aidi Steph Curry and Co. while taking the NBA 2025-26 title.
Smith recently revealed his list of the first five players to watch during the next season NBA, and Pundit ranked Butler at n. 4, in front of the Dallas Mavericks Kyrie Irving guard and behind the New Houston Rockets Kevin Durant striker, Los Angeles Lakers Lakers Luka Dončić and the center of Mavericks Anthony Davis.
“That’s why [Butler] It’s so important, “Smith said” first take “on Friday morning.” Why his teammate [Curry] It is the greatest shooter that God has ever created, by the way, hospitalizes the opponents who chase him stupidly, trying to find out how you can do what you can with him and then they have to go to the hospital for oxygen, in the air, because Steph Curry can do it, ok?
“You cannot ask him at the age of 37 to continue doing it without taking a step forward and showing Jimmy Buckets who the hell is Jimmy Buckets, remembering the world of Jimmy’s buckets and what he brings to the table. I have not seen much of the one against Minnesota after Steph Curry. Conference.”
Butler, last season, joined the training of Warriors on February 8. Entering that game against the Chicago Bulls, Golden State had a record of 25-26, but it went 23-8 to close the regular season with a record of 48-34, good enough to secure seed n. 7 of the Western Conference and the first place in the upper part of the NBA, which made advanced.
In the NBA playoff series in the first round of the Warriors against the Rockets, Butler marked on average 18.3 points, 6.0 rebounds and 4.8 assists in six races. He supported a pelvic bruise in game 2 of the series that made him lose the game 3. He played in the last four games against Houston and has scored at least 20 points three times, including 27 points twice.
Against Minnesota Timberwolves in the second round, Butler was forced to bring the load for most of the series after Curry suffered a knee tendon injury in game 1, which in the end the Warriors won. While Butler scored 20.3 points on average in the four games without curry, Golden State lost all four competitions.
Curry gives any Warriors team the opportunity to win, but the franchise knows that he needs him and Butler at the top of their game if they want to compete in a stacked western conference.