根据《迈阿密先驱报》记者Barry Jackson和Anthony Chiang的报道，消息人士透露，热火之前从没有给巴特勒开出过提前续约合约。
而在禁赛风波后,PatRiley接受节目访谈
以下是较为完整的片段
“The players who want to express themselves in a way that is absolutely anti what my beliefs are in representing an organization, whether it’s to grow a bigger brand, to make more money, to go out there and separate themselves a little bit from the pack. There’s nothing you can do about that,” Riley said, without mentioning Butler’s name. “The league wants it. Content is king and I have found that out that trying to keep the media out, the commissioner won’t allow that. Access is what it’s all
about.
莱利表示：“那些想要以完全与我的信念相悖的方式表达自己的球员，不管是为了扩展更大的品牌、赚更多的钱，还是为了稍微与群体区分开来，这些都没办法改变。 “联盟需要这样的内容。内容为王，我已经发现，不让媒体接触是不可能的，联盟总裁不会允许这种情况发生。接触才是关键。”
“And so players’ personalities today, the younger generation is just different than it was when I grew up. I grew up, and I think most of us my age, at a time when our parents were harder if we had them. If we had what they would call the nuclear family. It was hard, but it was different. There was, even if it was a stone cold house, there was love there. We had a place to go home every night and there were two parents that cared about you, that provided for you. Maybe they didn’t love you like you
wanted them to love you, but it was different. I’m not saying today’s player is not that, but it was harder and we understood that.
“今天球员的个性，年轻一代与我成长的时期差别很大。我成长的时候，我想我们这个年纪的大多数人，都是在父母比较严格的家庭中长大的。如果有父母的话，或者我们所谓的'核心家庭'。里面是冷冰冰的，还是有爱的。 我们每天晚上都有地方回去，有两个关心你、为你提供一切的父母。说今天的球员就不是那样的，但那时候更难，我们也理解那样的生活。
“So I understand this generation of players and how they want to go about living their life and the music they listen to and how they brand themselves and what they wear and how they dress. It might be a little bit more flamboyant than what I want, but that’s who they are and I respect that.”
莱利接着说：“我理解这一代球员，他们想要按自己的方式生活，听他们喜欢的音乐，打造自己的品牌，穿什么衣服，如何打扮。虽然这可能比我想要的更为张扬，但那是他们的选择，我尊重他们。
“There’s a difference,” he said. “Be who you want to be, but in one of the great biblical terms: Render unto Caesar what is his. When the apostles were trying to give all of their money to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, he said: ‘No, pay Caesar what he wants, what he is and then give it to other people.’
但是，莱利随后对这一点进行了区分，强调了有些行为可能会损害球队利益。 “这是两回事，”他说。 “做你自己，但用一个伟大的圣经教义来讲：‘该给凯撒的，给凯撒。’当使徒们试图把所有的钱都奉献给我们的主和救世主耶稣基督时，他说：‘不，给凯撒该得的，给他所要的，然后再给别人。
“So as players, they have to render unto the Heat really what is theirs too. And while they go out there and they do these other things, you can’t shortcut it with us. So, I’ve actually explained this to players is that while you’re under contract to us, you do owe us something. Your Collective Bargaining Agreement contract says that, so don’t ever take that lightly. We have a very cooperative group of people. But yes, I feel like I owe and I have to render unto Micky [Arison] as my boss. I don’t
do it in any other way other than with respect and I feel the same way about the players.”
“所以，作为球员，他们也得给予热火队他们应该承担的责任。尽管他们去做其他事情，但在我们这里，不能走捷径。所以，我实际上已经向球员们解释过，既然你们与我们签了合同，你们就欠我们一些东西。 Arison）作为我的老板，我也是怀着尊重去履行这个责任的，我对球员们也是如此。
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心得：
最不能理解的是
这段访谈有什么逻辑必须提及家人
特别是影射对象是一位从小被父母抛弃的人
“Jimmy Butler 自幼被父亲抛弃
母亲13岁嫌弃其长相将他逐出
辗转多个寄宿家庭
在18岁才正式被收养
而JB成名后找回其亲生父母抚养
亲生父亲2024年去世。”
Pat Riley的言行举止完全是超乎常理
不排除是有意压价且避免连年奢侈税
管理层拿着联盟前五的预算阵容却不如预期
当家球星带着落选阵容两进总冠军三次东决
而球队战略将Bam和JB列为第三进攻选择
“JB本季USG%为全队最低，WS/48联盟前五”
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原文连结
https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/barry-jackson/article298127393.html