Months After Fans Doubted Jimmy Butler for Michael Jordan?s Son, Dwyane Wade Reveals a Common Trait Between the Ex-Bulls Stars

Jimmy Butler turns into a different player when he reaches the playoffs. The Miami Heat guard usually has a silent regular season, averaging somewhere in the low 20s and keeping his team afloat. But when the NBA playoffs start, Butler switches gears and turns into an unstoppable beast. The same happened in the 2023 playoffs when Jimmy Butler led the 8th-seeded Miami Heat to the NBA finals, shocking the basketball world. His performance in the first round against Giannis Antetokounmpo and Co. was so dominant that fans crowned Butler the son of 6-time Champion Michael Jordan, fuelling the age-old rumor.

Months after the outrageous rumor, Miami Heat legend Dwyane Wade revealed what Jimmy Butler has in common with Michael Jordan.

Jimmy Butler and Michael Jordan?s common trait

Basketball Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade was a guest on the Club Shay Shay Podcast hosted by NFL legend Shannon Sharpe. The Heat legend talked about the one similarity between his former teammate Jimmy Butler and His Airness, ?He is always looking for something to piss him off.? Michael Jordan was famous for finding a reason to get pissed off at his opponents so that he could dominate them during the game. His urge has been well documented in “The Last Dance” documentary, where he got pissed at his opponents during his 6 NBA Championship runs.

According to Wade, Butler has the same trait in his personality. Fans know that Jimmy turns on the switch when he reaches the playoffs, and that comes from him finding a reason to be mad at his opponents. Butler?s trait was in full display during the 2023 Eastern Conference Finals when he took over Game 2 after having a verbal argument with the Celtics Forward Grant Williams. Seeing Butler?s competitive nature and elite playoff performance, fans even crowned him the son of Michael Jordan.

Fans love the Jimmy Butler-Michael Jordan rumor

NBA fans love to bring back the age-old rumor of Michael Jordan being the father of Jimmy Butler. The rumor caught fire somewhere around 2016 when an anonymous source claimed that MJ had an illegitimate son, and Jordan paid the mother to keep the information hidden. It was also said that MJ?s illegitimate child was kicked out of his mother?s house when the Bulls legend stopped sending in money. Fans immediately speculated that Jimmy Butler was the person in question as he was also kicked out of his house by his mother at a young age.

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But the rumor was not true at all. There was no match in the timelines, and it was just an outrageous story that spread like wildfire. Even though the rumor is false, fans love to restart the fire from time to time after witnessing the similarities between Butler and Jordan?s game. After Dwyane Wade?s comparison of the two, the NBA fans will be ready to bring that up yet again.

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