By John Rammas/ irammas@eurohoops.net
Signing a contract is one way of showing where you want to be. A trade demand is another one. And Jimmy Butler no longer wants to be in the Timberwolves and he made that clear over the last hours.
Eurohoops picked up on it and presents the five most unexpected trade demands since last summer.
PAUL GEORGE | SF | 1990
Was: Pacers 2010-17
Went: Thunder 2017-today
Trades: Victor Oladipo, Domantas Sabonis
They’d been together since 2010, when they had selected him with the 10th overall pick. But the consecutive failures (back-to-back… -to-back knockouts in the first round of the playoffs) had become even more unbearable because of his longing to play for the Lakers. In the end, in July of 2017, he found himself playing for the Thunder, only to be knocked out in the first round once again, this time in the Western Conference. Even though he was a free agent a summer later, since he still didn’t manage to become a Laker, he returned to Oklahoma with a $136.900.000 contract. Just as long as he’s not playing for the Pacers…