Jimmy Butler is living the real life The Blind Side movie after being drafted by the Chicago Bulls in the first round of the NBA draft on Thursday. This after he was kicked out of this house when he was 13-years old by his biological mother and bounced around for a bit before he was taken in by couple Michelle Lambert who is white and her husband Michael who is black. Here’s a bit from the Chicago Sun Times piece of Jimmy:
He was going into his senior year at Tomball High School, near Houston, when Lambert’s freshman son, Jordan Leslie, challenged him to a three-point contest at the outdoor basketball court down the street from the Lambert home. They became friends.
It eventually became clear to Leslie that Butler had no permanent place to live, that his was an existence of sleeping on couches and accepting meals whenever they were offered. After a friend’s father came home from a long trip as a trucker and needed his bed back, Butler was on his own again. Jordan invited him to stay the night at his home. There already were two parents and seven children at the Lambert’s.
‘‘For a long time, he was very shy,’’ Lambert said. ‘‘He wouldn’t come downstairs and eat. He would have the kids come bring him food. I think he thought if we saw him a lot that we’d realize he was there and try to make him leave or something. So he was very, very low-profile.’’
Jimmy who says he recently shut his Facebook page after getting so many requests from “cousins” says he still doesn’t know why his mother kicked him out and has never had a relationship with his father, but it’s all good because that provided the “fuel to his fire”.
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Thank you The Life Files for running a story like this. I wouldn’t say it balances out the overstock of bullsh*t but it makes me comeback every now & again. Keep up the work. Good & Bad
Why does this happen so much now? Remember the hand that rocks the cradle does what? But it’s still a good thing! What a person does… they do for themselves! Change is good… look at the seasons!
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