Warmth star Jimmy Butler’s agent, Bernie Lee, has taken a shot on the NBA media cycle and named NBA insider Shams Charania because the ringleader.

Lee lately recalled a second from the 2021 season, the place Shams was reporting on social media about tensions between Miami and Jimmy.

“Lee thought the report, which centered on Butler being demanding, was deceptive — ‘Jimmy’s exhausting on individuals? No s—!’ — and took to Twitter himself to reply,” Intelligencer‘s Reeves Wiedeman wrote. ‘Shut the f*ck up you click on bait, ambulance chasing, grime bag piece of sh*t,’ Lee wrote of Charania. ‘Nobody has informed you this as a result of this isn’t actuality. Go discover somebody’s assistant to textual content abt an MRI or another human calamity you need to be 1st on.’

“Lee informed me he objected partly to the story itself but in addition to the media surroundings basically. ‘Gamers are experiencing the world by way of their telephones and consuming this like everyone else, and since these guys are consuming nothing however rubbish about themselves, I’m seeing guys be unable to have an correct sense of themselves,’ Lee mentioned. ‘It’s not solely Shams’s fault. He simply occurs to be a ringleader of a extremely sh*t circus.’”

Lee does have a degree.

Social media and the NBA go hand in hand now, and never essentially for the higher.

Heartbreakingly, some gamers don’t even discover out that they’ve been traded till Shams or ESPN‘s Adrian Wojnarowski report it on X.

It doesn’t matter should you’ve been at an NBA franchise your complete profession, like Marcus Good.

Good spent his complete nine-year stint at Boston, solely to search out out he was being traded by way of his agent / social media.

“I used to be really asleep, and my agent referred to as my fiancée. She woke me up out of a sleep,” Good informed reporters in July after he was traded to the Grizzlies. “It was proper after the deal had been made, and I feel Shams had already tweeted it out. That’s how we came upon.”