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Jimmy Butler asks his team's own arena crew to turn down the Christmas music (Video)
It is fair to wonder if the Chicago Bulls got a little ahead of themselves on Wednesday night.
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The team appeared to get a little fat and sassy after racing out to a double-digit lead on the Washington Wizards in the first half. Days after what it hoped would be an attitude-defining blowout win over the Detroit Pistons, the Bulls yet again hoped that its star image would do most of the work for the team in what turned into yet another loss, and the franchise’s game operations department shared in the ideal by going a little over the top with its Christmas music.
As star swingman Jimmy Butler, charged with shooting a technical free throw all by his lonesome in the second quarter on Wednesday, surely noticed:
That’s “Jingle Bells,” blaring at “Turn Down For What”-levels (and with the appropriate vocal effects), being asked by the team’s biggest star to be, literally, turned down.
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Butler’s free throw put Chicago up by seven points at the time, but the squad went on to lose by a 107-97 score in another ineffectual performance by the club. Butler led the team with 20 points, but he needed 20 shots to get to that point. Fellow famous teammates Dwyane Wade and Rajon Rondo were even worse – on the same day Wade chided Bulls fans not to boo their lackluster home team, the two combined to shooting 8-30 from the floor in the loss.
Jimmy Butler is right in this regard, though: Christmas music starts to blare a little earlier each year – just today I heard Christmas tunes playing all over my local grocery store in anticipation for Christmas, 2017 which is over a year away.
Christmas music in Chicago on Dec. 21? That’s fine. Just not during free throws for the home team.
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Kelly Dwyer is an editor for Ball Don’t Lie on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at KDonhoops@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter!
