"I don't like your look. Go away ". These were the last words Jimmy Butler heard from his mother. He was 13 years old. His father had left years before, and the young teenager was thrown into the streets of Tomball, Texas, with no money and no family to take refuge with. With the only feeling of being abandoned by all.
Jimmy Butler's adolescence looks like a nightmare. For years, he will sleep with friends going from family to family, just hoping to spend the night in the warmth, so until he is 17, he goes from family to family, from sofa on the couch, until that what he crosses Jordan Leslie on the basketball courts. The two high school students compete in a 3-point contest and become friends. Jimmy Butler takes the opportunity to stay in bed as often as possible. Usually it only lasts a few weeks, but this time he gets a real place in the family, does his chores and ends up becoming Michelle Lambert's eighth child.
Jimmy Butler joins the University of Marquette, where his legend begins. First sent to coal on defensive missions, notably against Marshon Brooks of Providence, or Kemba Walker of UConn, Jimmy Butler would end up being one of the main options in Marquette's attack. A hell of a tour de force for the kid from Tomball with the twisted shoot ...
After two good last seasons at Marquette, Jimmy Butler finally made his way to the 2011 Draft. There, he impressed in camps before being chosen by Chicago in 30th place. Ten years later he's become an NBA superstar, one of the highest paid players, and as he turns 32 he's the Heat's franchise player.
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