Jimmy Butler is a basketball player from the Chicago Bulls NBA league team, an attacking defender (sometimes playing the role of “light forward”). In 2016, playing for the U.S. national basketball team, he became the 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 was tall and impressive in the dimensions of his legs and arms. Given the parameters of the young man, school coaches always invited him to speak at basketball competitions, where Butler always demonstrated a great game and technique.
Jimmy graduated from the Tombay High School school (the city of Tombay in the state of Texas). Then the guy studied at Tyler College, but a year later he transferred to Marquette University (a private Roman Catholic university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin), where he began playing in the student basketball league for the Golden Eagles team.
NBA Career
As you know, the US National Basketball Association annually hosts a draft lottery in which new basketball players are selected. Butler Jimmy (Buckets - player nickname) held this competition in 2011 and was selected at number 30 at the Chicago Bulls. Butler’s first season in the NBA ball is far from brilliant - a basketball player has never come to the court in the starting lineup. Game practice began only in the next season. The average basketball statistics for 26 minutes of playing time was as follows: 8.6 points and 4 rebounds.
