During the 2015-16 season, Chicago Bulls forward Jimmy Butler didn't dress with his teammates in the locker room and had heated arguments with Joakim Noah, according to none other than Derrick Rose.
Rose's autobiography called “I'll Show You” came out on Tuesday. The former MVP shed some light on his last season with the Bulls and it looks like it was nothing but dysfunction for Chicago that season.
Lots of weird stuff was going on, though. I wasn't sure what it was about, but Jimmy didn't dress with us. That season he was always dressing with the coaches, didn't stay in the locker room. Got to say, I never did see that before. To separate yourself from the team. How the hell do you think we're a team when that's going on?
Of course, I got the blame. But Jo saw it, he and Jimmy were at it. There was a lot of fracturing.
The Bulls missed the playoffs that season and traded Derrick Rose to the New York Knicks in the summer. Joakim Noah left the Bulls in free agency that offseason to join the Knicks as well.
Jimmy Butler lasted one more season with the Bulls before management traded him to the Minnesota Timberwolves in the summer of 2017. Butler never had a good relationship with head coach Fred Hoiberg in Chicago.
Butler and Noah are said to be on good terms now, while Rose and Butler were teammates again on the Timberwolves.
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