Jimmy Butler's parents have been less than enthusiastic about their son's profession. The Miami Heat player had a tough upbringing and received little support from his parents, making it difficult to imagine how amazing he's become.
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Many rumors have been circulated that Michael Jordan is the father of Jimmy Butler. But to hold everyone’s horses, Butler is nowhere related to Michael Jordan. Butler was born in the city of Houston. Butler’s father abandoned the family when he was a child. Jimmy Butler’s parents are Jimmy Butler II and Londa Butler. They split up while he was young.
For a long time, Jimmy Butler has been rumored as Michael Jordan’s son. It may be because always in the NBA playoffs, Butler just changes gears. Jimmy Butler struck the last of the remaining attack by scoring 40 points against a dejected Milwaukee Bucks club. The Miami Heat defied all expectations to defeat the NBA’s top seed, and no one was more deserving than Butler last night.
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To become who he is today, he had to go through some rough roads to reach his destination. When Butler was just 13 he was kicked out of his own house. Jimmy Butler told in an interview in 2011, what his mother told him, “I don’t like the look of you. You gotta go.”
Jordan Leslie, the school’s freshman football and basketball player, challenged Butler to a three-point shooting contest. Butler quickly became friends with Leslie and began living at his home. Jimmy Butler said this about Leslie’s family, “They accepted me into their family. And it wasn’t because of basketball. She [Michelle Lambert, Leslie’s mother] was just very loving. She just did stuff like that. I couldn’t believe it.”
Just imagine you are 13 and your mother says something so harsh. Now, when Butler looks behind these are all memories as he worked hard and is where he wanted himself to be.
With so much bad blood and memories, as a child some would not care about talking to their parents but Jimmy Butler still talks and care for his parents. In an interview with ESPN in 2015 Butler said, “I don’t hold grudges. I still talk to my family. My mom. My father. We love each other. That’s never going to change.”
According to a source, Butler’s parents, Jimmy Butler II or Jimmy Butler Sr. and Londa, were born in Mississippi. They relocated to Houston. There are no known reports about the present state of their relationship. Butler claims to be in contact with them. The Michael Jordan rumors arose due to the two’s remarkable similarity.
They also tend to peak around the playoffs, and while Michael Jordan purportedly had an illegitimate kid in the late 1980s, Butler was born around the same period. Now you get where this connection comes from.
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