Butler Jimmy: basketball player from the league team of the NBA "Chicago Bulls"

Jimmy Butler - basketball player from the NBA league team "Chicago Bulls", attacking defender (sometimes performs the role of "easy forward"). In 2016, speaking for the national basketball team of the United States, he became an Olympic champion.

Butler Jimmy: biography and student career of a basketball player

The future champion was born on September 14, 1989 in Houston, Texas (USA). Since childhood, Jimmy has always stood out among his peers - the guy had a high growth and inspiring the dimensions of the legs and hands. Given the parameters of the young man, the school coaches always invited him to compete in basketball competitions, where Butler always demonstrated an excellent game and technique.

Jimmy graduated from the school "Tombay High School" (the city of Tombai in Texas). Then the guy studied at Tyler College, but a year later transferred to the University of Marquette (private Roman Catholic University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin), where he began to perform in the student basketball league for the team "Market Golden Eagles."

Career in the NBA

As you know, the National Basketball Association of the United States annually passes a draft lottery, in which new basketball players are selected. Butler Jimmy ("Bucket" - the nickname of the player) was held this contest in 2011 and was selected under the 30th number in the "Chicago Bulls". The first season of Butler in the NBA ball is far from brilliant - the basketball player never went to the site in the starting lineup. The game practice began only in the next season. The average statistics of a basketball player for 26 minutes of playing time was as follows: 8.6 points and 4 rebounds.

Sporting achievements Butler

In the season 2014/2015 was awarded the title of "the most progressive player of the NBA". This record was significant not only for Jimmy Butler himself, but also for the "Chicago Bulls", because players of the bulls never received such a reward before. In July 2015, Jimmy signed a five-year contract with the Chicago Bulls, the financial side of which was 95 million dollars.

In December 2015, Butler Jimmy Bucket surpassed himself and set a record performance in the NBA. In a match against the Boston team, he managed to score 36 points, and a few weeks later surpassed the bar in 40 points in the game with the Detroit.

In early April 2016, for the first time in his career, he issued a triple-double ("triple double" or "triple double", ie, all three statistical basketball indicators for one match not less than 10 points).

On January 2, 2017, Butler Jimmy, playing against the Charlotte Hornets (118-111 in favor of the Bulls) without such team-mates as Duane Wade and Rajon Rondo, managed to score 52 points and set his own record. In this game the other basketball players of "Bulls" failed to score more than 12 points.