Nobody is more stubborn than Jimmy Butler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jimmy Butler plans to play for the G League’s Santa Cruz Warriors, as he recently confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The veteran is planning his return to the court and believes playing a few minutes in Santa Cruz will help him get into shape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I don’t have to check with anybody about a damn thing. I’m going to play there. If need be, Mike (Dunleavy Jr.) and I will end up throwing punches. He’ll say to me: ‘Jimmy, no’. And I’ll say to him: ‘Yes, Mike. I’m going to play there. Everybody will know where to find me. In Santa Cruz, baby’, Butler told journalist Nick Friedell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I’m going to go all the way there. To Santa Cruz. So good luck to everyone. They’re not going to give me many minutes, but I’m definitely going to play there. I want to play”, he stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is worth remembering that he was ruled out for the entire season on 20 January after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After leaving the Miami Heat on bad terms, he joined the Warriors in 2025, and since then has averaged 19.1 points, 5.5 rebounds and 5.3 assists <\/strong>in 31 minutes per game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This coming summer he will become an unrestricted free agent after coming off a salary of almost $57 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Cover photo: Reuters)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The veteran has confirmed he plans to play in the G League as the final stage of his recovery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":400110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,155,164],"class_list":["post-400109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-jimmy-butler","tag-santa-cruz-warriors","no-featured-image-padding","resize-featured-image"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/2026-10-16T233237Z_1306657710_MT1USATODAY30163459_RTRMADP_3_NBA-PRESEASON-PORTLAND-TRAIL-BLAZERS-AT-GOLDEN-STATE-WARRIORS.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Kiera Gardner","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/author\/kiera\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400180,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400109\/revisions\/400180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}