Watch. Malevy Leons produces a bit more without Jimmy Butler on the floor, but this is a marginal bump, not a breakout.
Butler is out with an injury that typically carries a nine-to-12-month recovery window. His return date is listed as 2026-12-01, though the team says any specific target is unreliable this early.
Across 24 games without Butler, Leons has averaged 9.82 FPG on 11.4 minutes, compared to 1.4 FPG on 3.0 minutes with him on the floor. Twenty-four games is a real sample, but the with-Butler minutes are so tiny that the swing looks bigger than it is in practice.
For context, Leons sits at 9.5 FPG on the season, ranked 401st under this league's scoring, so he's a deep-league name at best. His minutes have ticked up recently, up 3.0 over his last 10, which supports the idea he could see more run, but 11.0 minutes per game overall is still a bench role.
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