Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler is not worried about earning a maximum contract extension, but rather, winning.
Jimmy Butler's motivation is not coming from earning a maximum contract extension from the Miami Heat, plain and simple.
All of the offseason chatter about Heat team president Pat Riley not paying Butler is not of concern to him. Instead, the 35-year-old is laser focused on making himself available for his teammates."I'll leave it at that. I don't need to put a number on the amount of games that I play. I know the more games I play, the more opportunities my squad has of winning. I do know that."
Butler's first effort to do so came by appearing in multiple preseason games against the Charlotte Hornets and New Orleans Pelicans. He did not appear at all in last year's preseason. Earning individual awards could increase the forward's chances of landing a lucrative extension, but the hardware means "nothing" to him.
"It means nothing to me at all," Butler said of the 65-appearance rule to win major awards. "If we're being brutally honest, no matter what nothing I do now is going to get me paid any more money, even though I don't care about the money. I'm at a point right now where I have more than enough money. I'm just here to win.
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