It's no secret that there's different levels of conspiracy theories, so let's talk about one of modern basketball's biggest. The oft-repeated theory is that Jimmy Butler is actually the illegitimate child of Michael Jordan. Does it make sense? Is it possible? Since when are conspiracy theories concerned with those sorts of questions?
Butler sat down with Complex in 2019, and there was a lot of talk about sneakers: He'd been working with Adidas and with Jordan, but said that the shoes and his advertising deal with them didn't have anything to do with his actual relationship with Jordan — which was pretty good.
Butler said that when he hangs out with Jordan, "It's like, 'All right, maybe I do belong here for a reason.'" He likened it to another experience: "It was the same thing when I first got into the NBA, and when I first became an All-Star." Meeting Jordan wasn't just like meeting the sport's other big names, though, and he said that it was something else entirely. He'd been at a birthday party for Jordan, and it wasn't just a meet-and-greet, quick handshake, thanks-for-coming. Instead, they sat, they talked, they hit it off, and it had been the stuff he'd dreamed of: "It's just something that you couldn't tell me or many people, that you'd be able to do that in your lifetime."
