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Jimmy Butler's offseason didn't go as planned.
After his Miami Heat lost out on the Damian Lillard sweepstakes, is he wearing his emotions ... on his head? The Heat All-Star showed up with an unexpected new look at media day Monday.
"I'm emo," Butler said of his new do. " ... This is my emotional state. "I'm one with my emotions. So this is what you get."
Butler didn't elaborate much more on his new hairstyle. Nor did he say how long the look would last. He similarly showed up with a new style to last season's media day, sporting what he described as dreadlocks. They didn't survive the season, but lived on in his media headshots. In fact, when ESPN stopped using his media day photo, he kindly requested last season that they continue to do so.
“I don’t think it’s right,” Butler told USA Today last season. “I think I should be able to wear my hair however I want to wear my hair. You’re supposed to be using my media day picture.
“Put my hair back the way that it was because I love that hairdo on me.”
Note to photo editors.
As for Lillard, Butler said he was "happy for Dame to be somewhere he is wanted" despite that not being on Butler's Heat team.
"I am happy for Dame to be somewhere he is wanted, where he has a chance to win a championship. I am also happy for Adrian Griffin because to be a first-year head coach and have some guys like you have, good for you," Butler said.
"But you know I am still gonna be me. I am still gonna beat Dame, Giannis and Adrian Griffin on our way to a title like I've said every single year. I mean it this year, like I mean it every other year."
He was asked if he thought the Heat had done enough to build around him to compete for a championship.
“Yeah, we’re straight," Butler said. "Like I always say, I know what I’m capable of. I know what my guys are capable of. So we’ll continue to play basketball as a unit, as a team and somehow some way end up in the Finals.
"This time we’re gonna win it. And y’all will say we got lucky.”
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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