Miami Heat’s Jimmy Butler seeks dismissal from Binance promo class suit
Professional basketball player Jimmy Butler has asked to be dismissed from a class-action lawsuit targeting celebrities involved in the alleged promotion of unregistered securities by Binance, saying tweets he appeared in did not promote the named securities.
In a July 24 filing, Butler’s lawyers argued three tweets he appeared in promoting Binance between Feb. 2 and Feb. 13 of 2022 did not mention allegedl unregistered securities and thus could not have helped to promote them.
They asserted Butler’s tweets did not recommend any investment and instead warned of celebrity crypto endorsements, urging potential Binance customers to do their own research on crypto investments.
Butler was named in the March class-action lawsuit alongside Binance, its CEO, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, and YouTubers Graham Stephan and Ben Armstrong, who is known as BitBoy Crypto.
Binance engaged Butler — a player on the professional basketball team Miami Heat — in 2022 to promote the exchange in the lead-up to that year’s Super Bowl.
He first appeared in a video promoting a free nonfungible token (NFT) collection from Binance on Feb. 2, 2022. Butler subsequently tweeted another two videos that month, on Feb. 7 and Feb. 13.
Trust yourself. 02.13.22 Here's a message from all-star basketball forward @JimmyButler ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/WS9XCQrlhO
In the video posted by Binance, Butler says “you’re going to hear some of the biggest names telling you to get into crypto but they don’t know you or your finances.”
“Binance and I are here to tell you, trust yourself and, of course, do your own research,” he added.
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In Butler’s first tweet for the exchange, he said those who used the
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