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Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler goes viral for story about how he fell in love with country music over a prank

The basketball star details his favorite jams and why country music moves him.

Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler is making waves online with his hilarious and unconventional story about how he became a huge country music fan.

The star NBA player, who goes by the nickname "Jimmy Buckets," claimed in an interview last year that his love for the genre started from an innocent prank he tried to pull on his teammates in the college basketball locker room at Marquette University.

Butler, who is playing the Boston Celtics in game six of an NBA playoffs match-up on Saturday, told the "Alo Mind Full Podcast" that he ended up becoming a huge country music fan while trying to use it to prank his teammates.

JIMMY BUTLER PUTS CELTICS PLAYERS IN HIS CROSSHAIRS AS HEAT DOMINATE IN GAME 3

Jimmy Butler #22 of the Miami Heat looks on during Game Five of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Boston Celtics on May 25, 2023 at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.  (Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)

In the viral clip taken from the podcast, Butler explained how he got the idea for his prank. He said, "Before the game, everyone was listening to those Beats by Dre, and at that point in time they weren’t wireless and they had that thick cord and it was just like obnoxiously loud."

He continued, saying, "They [his teammates] wouldn’t put them on their ears, they were like right here and you could hear it. So it was like Lil Wayne coming from one of my teammates, Young Jeezy, Wiz Khalifa…" 

The forward claimed he asked them to turn the music down: ‘So I was like ‘Why don’t y’all turn it down, what’s the point of having on headphones if you’re not gonna have them on your head?’ And they were like, ‘Don’t worry about it man,

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