Jimmy Butler has not played since suffering a meniscus injury in late February, which has given the Wolves star far more free time than he’s accustomed to, especially on game nights.
Butler has returned to Twitter due to his boredom after having not tweeted in years, including a back-and-forth with Jae Crowder after the Jazz wing got into it with Jeff Teague and Tom Thibodeau in a late-game skirmish. Hopefully, Butler will be back on the court for the Timberwolves soon, as he’s approaching the early side of his return window from his knee injury, but for now he’s roaming the sidelines in street clothes of Minnesota games.
During Monday night’s stunning Timberwolves home loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, Butler was there in a sportcoat and t-shirt on the sidelines. That t-shirt raised some eyebrows because it was an extremely obscure old WWF t-shirt that read “Beware Of Dog,” referencing an In Your House PPV event from 1996, as spotted by Yahoo’s Dan Devine.
I think Jimmy Butler’s wearing a T-shirt from a 22-year-old wrestling pay per view where pre-“Stone Cold” Steve Austin battled Savio Vega in a Caribbean Strap Match? pic.twitter.com/I2HeQBxf8z
— Dan Devine (@YourManDevine) March 27, 2018
There are a few things that make this an incredibly bizarre shirt for Jimmy Butler to have. One is that the show was a disaster, because the power got knocked out in South Carolina that night and the PPV feed got knocked out, meaning two nights later they re-did almost the entire thing so people could get their money’s worth out of the PPV buy. The ’90s!
Beyond that, as Dan notes in his tweet, this PPV featured Steve Austin in a Caribbean Strap Match against Savio Vega — which is when the storm knocked the feed out and most of the lights in the arena, even though the show went on (Vega won). Triple H also lost to Marc Mero on this card, which I have to imagine was one of the last times Trips and Stone Cold lost on the same PPV for awhile, but I could be wrong.
There’s also a chance that the shirt is an Attitude Era British Bulldog shirt, but either way it’s incredibly obscure and Butler either just had this from his childhood or got it off eBay or Stash Pages. In any case, it’s pretty incredible and now I just want to sit down with Jimmy Butler and get his wrestling takes.
