{"id":480046,"date":"2026-01-21T08:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=480046"},"modified":"2026-01-21T08:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:22:19","slug":"warriors-dunleavy-dont-envision-trading-jimmy-butler-despite-acl-tear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/warriors-dunleavy-dont-envision-trading-jimmy-butler-despite-acl-tear\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors\u2019 Dunleavy: \u201cDon\u2019t envision\u201d trading Jimmy Butler despite ACL tear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1672\" data-end=\"1979\">Warriors GM Mike Dunleavy said the <strong data-start=\"1719\" data-end=\"1744\">Golden State Warriors<\/strong> have no plans to move <strong data-start=\"1767\" data-end=\"1783\">Jimmy Butler<\/strong> before the Feb. 5 trade deadline, even after Butler\u2019s torn ACL. \u201cI don\u2019t envision that,\u201d Dunleavy told reporters, framing Butler\u2019s value as a boost \u201cnext year\u201d similar to last season\u2019s arrival.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1981\" data-end=\"2341\">Butler\u2019s injury ended his season and, as Dunleavy acknowledged, could linger into next regular season, complicating a team searching for a realistic West upgrade around <strong data-start=\"2150\" data-end=\"2167\">Stephen Curry<\/strong>. Butler is owed <strong data-start=\"2184\" data-end=\"2201\">$54.1 million<\/strong> this season and <strong data-start=\"2218\" data-end=\"2235\">$56.8 million<\/strong> next in the final year of his deal, but Dunleavy pushed back on using that contract as a trade vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2343\" data-end=\"2661\">The ripple effect hits <strong data-start=\"2366\" data-end=\"2377\">Kuminga<\/strong>, who had asked out after being buried in the rotation, then returned Tuesday versus Toronto with 20 points in 21 minutes. Kerr said Kuminga will stay in the mix, while Dunleavy noted any pick-heavy push must land an \u201cimpactful\u201d player who fits both now and the post-Curry timeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden State shuts down pre-deadline talk on Butler\u2019s contract and shifts focus to a 2026-27 return; Jonathan Kuminga moves back into the rotation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":479841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-480046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-20-alle-07.43.08.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480046"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=480046"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=480046"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=480046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}