As he did occasionally with the Miami Heat — in an arrangement permitted early in his time with the organization and grumbled about later — Butler will not stay at the team hotel during the Warriors’ four-day stop in Miami this week. It’s a rare in-season chance for him to spend extended time away from the arena with his three young children, who live there, so he’s staying somewhere with more space and privacy. That’s why he zipped out of the arena right after the Brooklyn game. The Warriors were about to start a two-week homestand, and he wanted his children around while adjusting to a new city. So he needed to get to Miami to travel with them to San Francisco. “I pulled Steve aside and said, ‘Steve, I’m finna fly home and grab my kids,’” Butler recalled. “He said, ‘Oh, OK. Yeah. See you back in the Bay.’ Like nothing else. Nothing.” -via New York Times / March 24, 2025
