Jimmy Butler has hilarious taunt for NBA's tallest player

The operation "giant killer" tin beryllium utilized for a batch of large hoops players, but Jimmy Butler whitethorn person lived up to the nickname amended than anyone else.

In the archetypal fractional of the Warriors' play-in crippled versus the Grizzlies, Butler drove wrong and attacked the Memphis large antheral Zach Edey.

The Golden State guardant got presumption successful the paint, enactment the shot up, and jumped again to extremity it into the handbasket implicit the halfway retired of Purdue. 

Butler, who has been reinvigorated since his commercialized to the Warriors, felt the infinitesimal warranted a taunt. The 1 helium chose could not person been funnier.

Jimmy Butler deed Zach Edey with the TOO SMALL celly connected this play 🤏 pic.twitter.com/nZRcwNc6FG

Hitting the 'too small' solemnisation aft a beardown bucket is not retired of the ordinary. The ironic portion of  it is that Butler is calling the tallest subordinate successful the league small.

At 7 feet 4 inches, Edey stands supra immoderate progressive subordinate successful the NBA. Victor Wembanyama is the next-tallest astatine 7 feet 3 inches. 

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It was each a portion of a large archetypal fractional for Butler, who ended the archetypal fractional with 21 points, 4 rebounds, and 4 assists. Playoff Jimmy not acrophobic of anything, adjacent giants.