Jimmy Butler part 1: day 2 of camp

The guys that you haven't played with before, are they young guys? Not really, they've been telling me how these guys have been working all summer long, some of them obviously I've seen playing and played against. I mean, they just play crazy hard, they play with the purpose. They're probably out there getting shots up now, maybe later on getting up shots, that's all you can ask out of anybody. Jimmy, what did you see from Heimlich for purpose? He just plays to win, he makes all the right plays. He kind of plays like a vet, I think that's what that experience in the NCAA tournament gives you, he's very, very smart, he knows where the ball has to go. And he's confident in his abilities, he sticks to that, and he definitely plays to his strengths. Jimmy, do you have a target for a number of regular season games? Do you want a place that you enter the playoffs as fresh as possible, or do you not look at it that way? Ten. Ten, that's it? Ten, target number ten. The emo phase came and went, or internally, does the fire still burn with that? Fire still burns, I felt like some braids today, who knows what I might come in with tomorrow. My hairstylist, Flo, is phenomenal, so she makes magic happen, so I think it's good for everybody, including myself, to never know what's expected next. Jimmy, as an avid reader of your Instagram, you're tampering comments regarding the Milwaukee Bucks and how the NBA should investigate. Your thought process when you made that post? I don't know, I just say stuff all the time on my socials, you know? Because nobody ever knows what I'm doing, so it's a big deal whenever I do do something on social besides play dominoes and go to tennis matches. So if I say, check the body for Tampa, I guess everybody would take it seriously. Well, let me backtrack a little bit. Was there a disappointment, you knowing that there was a chance of Damian Lillard coming here? Honestly, he went to a holiday. From a competitive standpoint, was there a disappointment? No, no, no, not at all. I'm happy for both of those guys. I'm more pissed off that he went to Milwaukee because he went to Adrian Griffin's team, and everybody knows I don't like Adrian Griffin at all, since my Chicago days. But they got better, so it gives us the opportunity to do better. Pam has talked about maybe wanting to assume more of a leadership role this year, having his voice be a little bit louder. Do you encourage him to do that? Do you think he has that in him to kind of hold guys accountable that way also? I think we all do. Everybody can step up and lead in multiple different ways, whether it's emotional, use your words, you go out there, you lead by example. So if that's what he wants to take on, man, all power to you, go do that. However you do it, though, along with everybody else, help him. You like leading by example, right? Is that your method for the most part? I just hope, I don't know. There's too many different definitions of leadership nowadays, and depending on your definition of leadership, somebody else's is wrong. So I just play basketball. If I'm a leader, I am. Do you like trolling people? Like when you talk about the Instagram, you enjoy making people wonder what you're trying to get at. I don't troll people. I'm minding my business. I'm not bothering anybody. People just like to pay attention to what I'm doing, so people care about me a little bit, I guess. The way you guys utilize stuff, yeah.