Jimmy Butler explains why he switched from football to basketball in Texas, citing the heat and wanting to play indoors. His cousin Marquise Grayson taught him to "take the crooked with the straights," and his favorite movie is The Lion King.
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What's up, guys? Once again, I'm back. Q&A. Y'all got the questions. I have some of the answers, not all of them. My favorite movie is definitely "The Lion King." First in line.
Well, I was first in line until a little hairball was born.
The hairball is my son and your future king.
Oh, I shall practice my galaxy.
Don't turn your back on me.
Don't turn your back on me, Scar. Om nomu fasa. Ask you to turn your back on me.
There's my scene. My favorite quote to live by. If you're around me on a daily basis, I have a little cousin named Marquise Grayson who's actually more like a brother to me now. And I always say he's the wisest man that I know. And I think one thing that he would say in any and all aspects of life, good or bad, no matter what, He would always tell me that you gotta be able to take the crooked with the straights. Meaning life isn't always gonna be just great and it's not gonna be sun shining outside every day. Everything's not gonna go your way. Those are the crooked, but for as many crooked as you take, those straights are just gonna make it so much better. And it's a running joke between us. You know, we tell everybody all the time, you gotta learn to take the crooked with the straights.
Yeah.
But as much as we joke around, it's that much true. Lamborghini or minivan? I'm taking minivan. Spacious, relaxed, nonchalant, very nonchalant. And I'm comfortable in it. I don't even think I fit in a Lamborghini. I don't know. I always did want the Ferrari California though. I did want that ever since I saw it in the Nelly video with Forest George and I. Great view. Holy moly. 3 swimming classes or skydiving? Look, let me tell you something right now. Both of them are extremely dangerous when you're talking about me. I'm supposed to be going skydiving for my 30th birthday. I'm on a seesaw, teeter-totter, whatever you wanna call it about that. I don't know. Swimming classes?
Nah.
I just look at it like this, like, I haven't been able to swim for 29 going on 30 years. I don't understand what's gonna make it click on my 30th year to be like, "Yo, just go learn how to swim." I don't see myself doing that. Skydiving. You still on the teeter-totter. I can't pick right now. I don't know. I don't know. Good question. Really good question, actually. One true story. The reason I started playing basketball is because I was a football player first in Texas. I still love the game of football. It was entirely too hot for me to be outside for that long. I did not want to be outside in all those pads in the heat. Just wasn't for me. So I thought, why not go inside and play in the AC, in the air conditioning? It worked out great for me. At first I was really, really bad, as I would tell anybody, like, A typical football player. Just really, really fast, but will run down there and just throw the ball over the rim on a layup. PSG, you see that? I love the game of soccer. I mean, I would say I'm not very good at it, but it's still to be determined. Why is PSG my favorite team? If the world does not already know that answer by now, I'll tell you, we have the greatest soccer player to ever play the game on that team. And his name rhymes with Neymar Jr. Simple as that. Oh wow, my first kiss? Don't try this at home. It was in the back of my, what was it? Like 4th grade classroom. Back there supposed to be studying, taking a quiz, doing something relevant to class, to school. And me and this girl, blank blank, she definitely knows who she is, I know who she is, I'm not telling y'all. And we was back there with some friends and they was like, "Ah, ha, ha, ha, bet you won't kiss her, ha, ha, bet you won't kiss him, ha." How was it? I don't know, it was my first one. Like, good. I was excited. I don't know, it's actually a good question. It had to be good. It's first kiss. You can only go up from there, so you don't know if you're good or bad. So yeah, it was good. It had to be good. Yeah, it was good.
