Jimmy Butler may have come into the Golden State Warriors' roster with plenty of baggage considering how badly his Miami Heat stint ended, but Butler has wasted no time integrating himself into the fabric of the Warriors roster. Butler has not only gotten along with Stephen Curry and Draymond Green, his relationship with them has blossomed immensely — with the three even celebrating Curry's birthday until the wee hours of the night.
Butler has also called on his team to pick up the slack amid Curry's battle with fatigue, immediately picking up the leadership mantle for a Warriors team that isn't starved of leadership. Simply put, everything is going smoothly in Butler's relationship with Curry that it has reached the point where the former can make fun of the latter in a lighthearted manner, which is what he did following the Dubs' 104-93 win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday night.
“[My favorite Curry highlights are] probably his dunks because he don’t get too many of those. Any time my man gets a dunk. I’m a fan,” Butler said with a huge smile on his face, via 95.7 The Game on X (formerly Twitter).
Even Curry's most recent dunk, which he threw down in the Warriors' brutal loss to the Philadelphia 76ers (his first dunk in over five seasons), wasn't witnessed by Butler firsthand on the court, as Butler was out for that game.
Indeed, Curry doesn't have too many dunks to his name. There might be a six-minute compilation on YouTube around to satisfy Butler's need to get a kick out of the Warriors star's rare highflying exploits, but some of those dunks are separated by multiple seasons. He goes multiple campaigns without throwing the ball down, so it truly is a cause for celebration to see Curry dunk the basketball.
Warriors' Stephen Curry knows three is better than two
Taking the ball to the basket has never been Stephen Curry's strength. It was a prominent part of his game during his prime, especially when teams wanted to run him off the three-point line, and even though he was one of the best finishers in the league, he never did it with pure athleticism, instead preferring to let his buttery touch around the basket do damage.
Curry ushered in the three-point revolution, and he's scored over 12,000 career points on baskets made from beyond the arc. And no one, not Curry or the Warriors, would ever want to change a single thing.
