Miami Heat forward, Jimmy Butler, was at the mercy of the critics after Friday night’s game.
Twitter fingers were ablaze with holier than thou judgment. Butler was painted as a big, bad bully, while Towns as a victim.
Plenty called Butler classless, challenging his sportsmanship. The same people that shake their heads and bemoan the loss of days past, when defense was king, now shake their heads at the travesty of trash talk ruining the game.
It is even inspiring headlines like this – Jimmy Butler went too far talking trash to Karl-Anthony Towns– on SB Nation. This writer went so far as to tie the deaths of Towns’ family members in 2020 into the incident, somehow tying these two unrelated incidents together, citing one as a reason to incriminate the other.
The writer is insinuating that if something terrible happens to someone, you shouldn’t chirp with them ever about anything. Adorable.
The response is a great way of telling me you’ve never played competitive sports without telling me you never played competitive sports. To all you “basketball purists”, who long for days of old and before thumbing your noses at players like Butler, take a look in the mirror.
You think Larry Bird and Bill Lambier were whispering sweet nothings into one another’s ears? Please stop commenting on basketball, no one likes you.