Butler (name)
Participated in the 31st Rio de Janeiro
the Olympics
The 2016 Beijing Olympics were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from August 5 to August 21, 2016, Butler, as a member of the U.S. men's basketball team, followed the team to participate in all the men's basketball competitions, and ultimately Butler helped the U.S. men's basketball team to succeed in winning the championship, which is also the heaviest weight of Butler's personal basketball career to the year 2023, after all, Butler's number of championships in his NBA career is still zero.
Born in 1989, Butler is a superstar guard who played for the NBA's Miami Heat in 2023. Butler entered the NBA through the draft in 2011 and has played for several NBA teams, including the Bulls, Timberwolves, 76ers and Heat, and Butler has left his own legacy with each team he has played for in the league. For example, he won the 2014-2015 season's Most Improved Player during the Bulls' time, and became the NBA's steals king in the 2020-2021 season. In addition to this, Butler has also been selected to the NBA All-Star team and the NBA's best regular-season lineup several times.
In addition to his NBA career, Butler has been named to the U.S. Men's Basketball Select Team roster on several occasions and has represented the United States in international competition, including the 2016 Rio Olympics. Butler was first named to the U.S. Men's Basketball Chaperone Team in 2014 and led the bench to a victory over the starting team, but due to a personal groin injury, Butler regrettably withdrew from the U.S. Men's Basketball Chaperone Team and did not represent the U.S. Men's Basketball Team in international competition again until 2016.
Butler helped the U.S. men's basketball team in the 2016 Rio Olympics all the way to the final, and in the final against the Serbian men's basketball team, the U.S. men's basketball team showed its strong strength, with a score of 96-66 easily beat Serbia, so as to realize the Olympic Games for the third consecutive title. Butler helped extend the U.S. men's basketball team's winning streak in the Olympic Games to 25 games.
