報告（する）／憶測: Heat still 注目する，もくろむing Butler, who practices
The 競争 to land Jimmy Butler from the Minnesota Timberwolves could be about to heat up.
The Miami Heat are 報道によれば 利益／興味d in making another run at Butler, while the Houston ロケット／急騰するs have 報道によれば turned 負かす／撃墜する an 初期の 申し込む／申し出 for the four-time All-星／主役にする, によれば an ESPN 報告（する）／憶測 Wednesday.
Miami's 試みる／企てる to acquire Butler unraveled last week when the Timberwolves 手配中の，お尋ね者 a better player in return than guard Josh Richardson.
一方／合間, the ロケット／急騰するs received an 予備交渉 in which Minnesota requested 狙撃 guard Eric Gordon and 力／強力にする 今後 PJ Tucker, but Houston wasn't 利益／興味d in parting with Tucker, per Wednesday's 報告（する）／憶測.
Three weeks since he requested a 貿易（する）, Butler practiced with the team for the first time Wednesday in an 明らかに heated 開会／開廷／会期.
によれば ESPN, he 口頭で challenged チーム仲間s, coaches and 前線 office (n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs, and left many speechless. Per the 報告（する）／憶測, an emotional Butler 的d 大統領，／社長 of basketball 操作／手術s and coach Tom Thibodeau, チーム仲間s Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins, and general 経営者／支配人 Scott Layden, at whom he 叫び声をあげるd at one point, "You need me. You can't 勝利，勝つ without me."
退役軍人 point guard Jeff Teague said Butler's 行為 didn't bother him.
"I've been around the league," Teague told reporters. "It's my 10th year, so I been a part of teams where a lot of things have been going on. It's part of the game. I don't think it's distracting me. It may be distracting some other guys. Either way, man, I love Jimmy. Jimmy is my guy. But if he's not here, then we've got a good team, too."
Butler has told the organization he will leave as a 解放する／自由な スパイ／執行官 next summer if he isn't 貿易（する）d. Thibodeau has been hoping Butler will 減少（する） his 貿易（する） request, while owner Glen Taylor 願望（する）s a quick 決意／決議 to the 取引，協定.
提案s 人物／姿／数字 to 選ぶ up again this week with Minnesota's first game ぼんやり現れるing against the San Antonio 刺激（する）s on Oct. 17.
によれば 報告（する）／憶測s, the Los Angeles Clippers, 不死鳥／絶品 Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers, Houston ロケット／急騰するs and Sacramento Kings have also kicked the tires on a Butler 取引，協定. The Brooklyn 逮捕するs and New York Knicks also could 現れる 可能性s.
Butler, 29, appeared in 59 games last season for the Timberwolves, 普通の／平均（する）ing 22.2 points, 5.3 回復するs, 4.9 補助装置s and 2.0 steals.
He is entering the fourth season of a five-year, $92.3 million 契約 he 調印するd with Chicago in 2015, but he can enter the 解放する／自由な スパイ／執行官 market next summer by 選ぶing out of the final year. He is scheduled to earn a base salary of $18.7 million in 2018-19.
In July, Butler 報道によれば turned 負かす／撃墜する Minnesota's four-year 拡張 申し込む／申し出 価値（がある） $110 million.
--Field Level マスコミ
