{"id":489491,"date":"2025-02-09T07:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T11:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=489491"},"modified":"2025-02-09T07:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T11:10:39","slug":"butler-notches-25-points-in-his-warriors-debut-in-rout-of-bulls","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/butler-notches-25-points-in-his-warriors-debut-in-rout-of-bulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler notches 25 points in his Warriors debut in rout of Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Butler played his 1<sup>st<\/sup> match for the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/golden-state-warriors\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/golden-state-warriors\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/golden-state-warriors\/\">Golden State Warriors<\/a><\/a><\/a> without practice or even the benefit of going through the morning shootaround before the match against the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/chicago-bulls\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/chicago-bulls\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/chicago-bulls\/\">Chicago Bulls<\/a><\/a><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, Jimmy looked exactly what everyone in the Dubs thought they would get as they traded for him, and he inked a new 2-year, 111 million-dollar contract. Butler notched 7 of 12 shots, got to the foul line 13 times, and finished with 25 points to help Golden State come back from a 24-point deficit and defeat Chicago 132-111 in the windy city.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy\u2019s 25 points were the most in a debut for a new organization and the most in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> match for Golden State since <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kevin-durant\/\">Kevin Durant<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing that I liked the most was with his passing,&#8221; Kerr shared. \u201cButler passing changes everything. &#8230; The skill, the strength, the knowledge to win free throws.<\/p>\n<p>He is just a star and a lion, and that changes everything for our team in a positive way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steph Curry and Draymond Green also praised their new teammate after the victory in Chicago.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Steph Curry on Jimmy Butler: \u201cHe\u2019s like the exact opposite player of me. I took 16 3s and he shot one. He got to the free throw line a lot, dominated the paint. I dominate the perimeter. It has the potential to be really fun.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cUzXtNfLzW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/cUzXtNfLzW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anthonyVslater\/status\/1888447498533900355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Butler played his 1st match for the Golden State Warriors without practice or even the benefit of going through the morning shootaround [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":489492,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16719,16989,18014,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18347,17876,18133,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Jimmy scored 25 points in his 1st game as part of the Golden State.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489493,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489491\/revisions\/489493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489491"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=489491"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=489491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}