{"id":1938391,"date":"2023-05-26T04:13:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T08:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miami-heats-jimmy-butler-said-he-blasted-country-music-to-annoy-teammates-wound-up-loving-the-genre\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T04:15:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T08:15:11","slug":"miami-heats-jimmy-butler-said-he-blasted-country-music-to-annoy-teammates-wound-up-loving-the-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miami-heats-jimmy-butler-said-he-blasted-country-music-to-annoy-teammates-wound-up-loving-the-genre\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Butler of the Miami Heat played country music to annoy his teammates, but ended up loving it."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmiami-heats-jimmy-butler-said-he-blasted-country-music-to-annoy-teammates-wound-up-loving-the-genre%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1938391&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Jimmy Butler&#8217;s Love for Country Music Started as a Joke<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Houston-born <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/miami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miami Heat<\/a> forward Jimmy Butler enjoys <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/country-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feud-escalates-between-country-legend-and-rude-reporter-ends-in-10k-anti-biden-bet\/\" title=\"Feud Escalates Between Country Legend and Rude Reporter, Ends in K Anti-Biden Bet\">country music<\/a><\/a>, but he first started listening to it as a joke.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A clip of Butler discussing how he came to like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miami-heats-jimmy-butler-said-he-blasted-country-music-to-annoy-teammates-wound-up-loving-the-genre\/\" title=\"Jimmy Butler of the Miami Heat played country music to annoy his teammates, but ended up loving it.\">country music recently started making<\/a> the rounds on social media. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/nba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBA star<\/a> said listening to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fncs-carlson-gamestop-saga-shows-system-is-not-the-capitalism-we-were-promised-not-even-close\/\" title=\"FNC's Carlson: GameStop Saga Shows System Is 'Not the Capitalism We Were Promised -- Not Even Close'\">country began<\/a> as a way to troll his teammates but has since become a genuine appreciation for the genre.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBefore the game, everyone was listening to those Beats by Dre, and at that point in time they weren\u2019t wireless and they had that thick cord and it was just like obnoxiously loud,\u201d Butler told the Alo Mind Full podcast seven months ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey [teammates] wouldn\u2019t put them on their ears, they were like right here [around the neck] and you could hear it. So it was like Lil Wayne coming from one of my teammates, Young Jeezy, Wiz Khalifa \u2026,\u201d he went on. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I was like \u2018Why don\u2019t y\u2019all turn it down, what\u2019s the point of having on headphones if you\u2019re not gonna have them on your head?\u2019 And they were like, \u2018Don\u2019t worry about it man, worry about what\u2019s coming out of your headphones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I said \u2018OK.\u2019 After the game, I go home and I Google, \u2018What\u2019s the most country song there is?\u2019 Three popped up, but the one I saw first was Tim McGraw\u2019s \u2018Don\u2019t Take The Girl,\u2019 so I downloaded it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The six-time NBA All-Star said this set his plan into motion.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI go into the next game and I have my headphones like that and that\u2019s what I\u2019m blaring, and they were like \u2018Yo, no you can\u2019t listen to that, turn it down.\u2019 And I said \u2018No, you listen to what\u2019s in your headphones, and I\u2019m gonna listen to what\u2019s in mine.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Butler said it was McGraw who turned him on to country music. \u201cThen I actually started to listen to the lyrics in the song, and I was like \u2018Wow!\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA player, who has the nickname \u201cJimmy Buckets,\u201d is currently making headlines as Miami Heat is one win away from their second NBA Finals appearance in four years. The Heat play the Boston Celtics at 8:30 p.m. ET on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<h3>Get the Daily Wire App<\/h3>\n<p><b><a class=\"c-link c-link--focus-visible\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Heat&#8217;s Jimmy Butler, originally from Houston, revealed he enjoys country music, which he started listening to as a joke to tease his teammates. A video of him discussing his newfound love for the genre has gone viral on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1938392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[24343,14071,6412,4060,7454,4781,11125,10374,3863,10139,12249],"class_list":["post-1938391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-annoy","tag-butler","tag-country","tag-heat","tag-it","tag-jimmy","tag-loving","tag-miami","tag-music","tag-played","tag-teammates"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}