A Coach's Diary

Sports Illustrated ran an article last November about Jimmy Butler’s commitment to turning himself into an NBA superstar.  A big reason for his drastic improvement that led him to becoming the NBA’s 2014-2015 Most Improved Player was the decision to cut his cut his cable so he could focus strictly on the game of basketball.   Butler and his friends rented a house for the summer so that they could spend time together, but he says he purposefully chose not to furnish it or purchase cable: “I wanted to be so good at the game that we didn’t have cable, we didn’t have the Internet. Whenever we got bored, all we would do is go to the gym. We’d eat, sleep and go to the gym. We’d go three times a day because we didn’t have anything else to do. We were sitting on the couch, looking at each other, saying, ‘What the hell are we going to do all day?’” It was a well written article in which he talks about his life growing up, his college days, and goes more in-depth about some of th...