Jimmy Butler needs to get traded already. Not so he can find his basketball joy in Phoenix or Houston or wherever, and not so the Miami Heat can turn the page on what’s been a difficult month. No, Jimmy Butler needs to get traded so we can all stop talking about him already. WNBA star Cameron Brink spoke for all of us on the first episode of her new podcast Straight to Cam when she expressed frustration to her cohost, Sydel Curry-Lee, over being asked about Butler.
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“I was in Miami for Unrivaled, and I was walking into a Heat game. I was going with a friend, and people are yelling at me, ‘Where’s Jimmy?'”
Brink has a lot going on. She’s rehabbing her knee to recover from the torn ACL that will likely keep her out for at least part of this upcoming WNBA season. She recently signed a two-year deal with Unrivaled, the 3-on-3 women’s basketball league founded by Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier. She’s set to appear in this year’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. And she just started her new podcast. She has no time to talk about athletes who aren’t even in her league.
“I was just on CBS Sports… I was doing PR, and at the end of the interview it’s like, ‘Where do you think Jimmy should go?’ I’m like, I’m not here to talk about another man that I really don’t know that well if I’m being honest.”
Brink makes a great point that, although she thinks he’s very nice, “At the end of the day, it’s really not that serious… it’s just exhausting. It’s annoying.” So please forgive her if, like the rest of us, she’s not looking to talk about Jimmy Butler and his future destination.
This isn’t the first time Cameron Brink has been asked about Jimmy Butler
Brink also spoke about how, any time she publicly interacts with any male athlete, people always want to make it into a big deal like they’re flirting or they’re dating, like when she threw out the first pitch at a Dodgers game and was seen laughing with Shohei Ohtani. Rumors swirled about her and Butler after he wore her jersey to an L.A. Sparks game. Brink says the discourse wears on her and makes her hesitant to read things online.
“It does not have to be turned into that narrative every single time… Nothing can just be professional. It can just be so weird… it just makes me so uncomfortable. It’s not like that. There can be a mutual admiration but not in that way.”
Everybody is tired of the Jimmy Butler trade discourse, but when you add the extra layer that female athletes like Brink have to deal with all the time, it really gets old quick.
