Unlike many other superstars in the league, Jimmy Butler really enjoys his life outside of basketball. Even though the Miami Heat leader is a pretty hard worker, he makes sure to have fun during his time off the court. While the forward has a peculiar taste in music, Jimmy Bucket immensely loves country music. So much so, that he is even working on releasing an album in the same genre. However, you’ll be surprised to know that his affinity for country music only began as a prank to get back to his teammates at Marquette.
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While we know Jimmy for being perseverant, he is as petty as one can get. His latest antics on social media taunting the Boston Celtics are good enough evidence.
However, his being petty led him to discover country music, a genre that he would go on to be an avid enthusiast of.
Jimmy Butler started listening to country music to annoy teammates at Marquette
Prior to the start of the 2022-2023 season, the 6-time All-Star made an appearance on the “ALO Yoga” podcast. During a point in the episode, the two-way star would reveal how he started appreciating country music – a simple attempt to annoy his teammates.
Butler revealed how his Marquette teammates would have their headphones around their necks and blasted different types of music. So, as a motive to get back at them, Jimmy downloaded the “most country song” and played it on his headphones.
“After the game, I go home and I Google ‘what’s the most country song there is?’ Three popped up, but the one I saw first was Tim McGraw- ‘Don’t Take The Girl,’ so I downloaded it.”
“I go into the next game and I have my headphones like that and that’s what I’m blaring, and they were like ‘Yo, no you can’t listen to that, turn it down.’ And I said ‘No, you listen to what’s in your headphones, and Imma listen to what’s in mine.’”
Apart from successfully bothering his teammates, Jimmy Butler actually liked the lyrics of the song and discovered that he relished the genre.
“Then I actually started to listen to the lyrics in the song, and I was like ‘wow!’”
The DJ Khaled of the country music world, Butler is yet to release this much-awaited album of his that he spoke about.
Jimmy’s obsession with coffee motivated him to start “Big Face Coffee”
Trying to be productive during the 2020 Bubble, Jimmy got the idea of starting his own coffee brand.
Establishing himself as an entrepreneur, Butler’s “Big Face Coffee” was a great idea to make loads of money by overcharging other NBA players. Stating how most of the players only had two $20 bills before having to use their $100 bills, Jimmy hilariously revealed his genius plan on the same podcast appearance.
“In the bubble, we got like cash in envelopes. So I just remember counting it, $4,040. We can’t even spend this cash. So in my mind, I’m thinking ‘How can I hustle everybody out of this cash?’ If I can get people to pay me $20 per cup, eventually they’ll run out of $20 and they’ll have to start paying with $100 bills. And they pay me $100 bills and I just take it and be like ‘Sorry, I don’t have any change.'”
Even today, Butler does everything that he can in order to promote his business.
