NBA总冠军赛结束第五战,勇士击退塞尔提克取得3:2听牌,而谈到这系列战功臣,柯瑞无须多说,但却不能不提威金斯,他近两场都缴出双十成绩,精采表现让卓雷蒙格林忍不住讚赏,并提到对方能成功绝非偶然,因为连前队友吉米巴特勒都爱他。
Draymond on Wiggins: "When he first came here, I'll never forget Thibs, when wasn't with the Knicks, he was like, 'You're going to love him. He competes. He defends. Jimmy loved him.' We all know how Jimmy Butler is. If you have any softness to you, Jimmy don't like you." pic.twitter.com/ITn0OSaX2U
— HoopsHype June 14, 2022
格林在受访时提到威金斯表现,并谈及过去往事说:「当他第一次来到这里时,我永远不会忘记席波迪说过的话,席波迪说:『你会爱上他的,他好胜且还能防守,巴特勒爱他。』我们都知道巴特勒的个性,如果你有一丝丝软弱,巴特勒就不会喜欢你。」格林藉由此事强调威金斯是受过认可的。
威金斯过去在灰狼短暂与巴特勒当过队友,当时外界曾爆料巴特勒对威金斯与唐斯表现感到不满,并独自在训练赛率领三线球员击败两人为首的先发队伍,还直言他们很软,之后更传出这是巴特勒会离队的原因之一,不过威金斯现任队友伊戈达拉也曾给出不同说法。
"Jimmy Butler had nothing but amazing things to say about Wigs. He really liked playing with him. That was all I needed to hear because Jimmy doesn't like anybody."
Jimmy made Andre Iguodala look at Andrew Wiggins differently ?
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— ClutchPoints December 18, 2021
伊戈达拉透露巴特勒其实对威金斯表现很讚赏,也喜欢和对方打球,认为巴特勒并不会随便喜欢一个人,所以听到如此传闻他感到讶异,和过去大家接收到消息有所不同。而如今格林似乎也在暗示巴特勒和威金斯的「另类关係」,或许过去的不开心早烟消云散,但同时令人好奇巴特勒对唐斯的不满程度到底有多少了。