Jimmy Butler Re-Signs With The Miami Heat

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The Miami Heat announced Saturday that they person re-signed guardant Jimmy Butler to a declaration extension.

The presumption of his declaration were not disclosed.

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“Jimmy is the anchor and look of our franchise on with Bam and Kyle,” said HEAT President Pat Riley. “With Jimmy, we get an All-NBA player, an All-NBA Defensive player, pugnacious arsenic nails and a implicit subordinate crossed the board. He’s precise deserving of this declaration arsenic helium continually puts himself astatine the apical of the league astatine his position. Having him successful the HEAT enactment has been a great, large coup for us.”

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Butler started each 52 games successful which helium appeared past play and averaged a team-leading 21.5 points, a team-best 7.1 assists, 6.9 rebounds and an NBA-leading 2.08 steals successful 33.6 minutes portion shooting 49.7 percent from the tract and 86.3 percent from the foul line.

Butler was besides named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team, helium became the archetypal HEAT subordinate successful franchise past to pb the league successful steals per crippled and his 86.3 percent shooting from the foul enactment was the third-highest azygous play percent successful squad history.

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A five-time NBA All-Star, Butler has appeared successful 633 games (528 starts) during his 10-year NBA vocation and averaged 17.4 points, 5.2 rebounds, 4.0 assists, 1.63 steals and 33.1 minutes portion shooting 45.8 percent from the floor, 32.7 percent from down the arc and 83.8 percent from the foul line.

CBSMiami.com Team