If you really pay attention to the quote, Jimmy Butler is saying he doesn’t believe Rose has a beef with him, but you can tell he isn’t quite 100% sure if Rose feels some type of way towards him.
He never flat-out says that Rose told him they were cool, he just says he has no reason to believe they aren’t at the moment.
Here is the entire quote from ESPN’s First Take.
“I think he’s always been supportive of me being aggressive, especially on offense,” Butler said … “We all know that I’ll be the aggressor on defense. So from what I can tell, the guy’s always been in my corner…
“The only reason that it came up is because we lost,” Butler said. “I don’t think we have any beef or whatever you want to call it. I think we just want to win. We didn’t win, so now [people say] we’re beefing, now we have a problem with each other, and I don’t think that’s the case.”
Butler doesn’t THINK they have beef, but he stops short of saying he knows for sure. By saying “from what I can tell” it implies if there is an issue it is comes from Rose’s side, not Butler.
There is definitely something a little off about their relationship, listen to what Butler told Cari Champion.
Butler acknowledged in a “Be Honest” podcast with ESPN’s Cari Champion that there were teammates he “definitely” didn’t get along with during his four-year tenure with the Bulls but didn’t specify names. He said he doesn’t hang out with Rose much off the floor but doesn’t believe that matters much in regard to how he and his teammates play.
“Probably not as much,” he said of hanging with Rose off the floor. “But I don’t think that that’s a problem. He has his family, I got my guys with me all the time. So we spend so much time with each other if we’re traveling on the plane, we’re practicing, we’re watching film, we’re playing in a game. That’s a lot of time to be around your team. So off the floor, you say hello, you might hang out every once in a while. But I think everybody goes their separate ways, unless you’re like rookies and you don’t got anything else to do. Y’all hang out with each other, but everybody kind of got their group with them.”
This is true, it might be nothing, might be something, only Rose and Butler know the truth.
Something to watch when the season starts because they are going to be teammates for a while.