Jimmy Butler vs. Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins
Jimmy Butler is the epitome of the double-edged sword NBA teammate — he’s the type of guy you want on your team because of his work ethic and desire for wining, but he’s also the guy on your team who makes everyone else miserable for those same reasons. Tom Thibodeau brought Jimmy Butler to Minnesota to help instill a sense of culture with the young Timberwolves, and teach young franchise cornerstones Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins about what it takes to be a playoff team.
But Butler’s abrasive style, coupled with Towns and Wiggins immaturity (as well as the fact that the latter two were first to receive lucrative contract deals over Butler), led to Bulter eventually going nuclear on the team, basically calling everyone in the organization “soft” and demanding to be traded.