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Kaitlin Nowak Got The Bag, But Maybe Not Forever Now

The other side of Emo Jimmy Butler’s drama.

Ted Bauer
4 min readJan 14, 2025

Jimmy Butler, a long-term (at this point) NBA star who is currently suspended from the Miami Heat and will probably get traded to a contender at some juncture, has three kids with a woman named Kaitlin Nowak. The “three” may surprise you, as a lot of people thought they had two kids, but apparently they had another kid together in October of 2023 and Jimmy went ahead and questioned the paternity on that one. (Oh damn!)

Jimmy currently pays Kaitlin $55,000/month, which is insane because if you watched Starting Five on Netflix, he seems to be with his kids a good deal. Now Kaitlin wants another — yes, another — $10,000 per month (so the total would be about $65,000/month, or $780,000/year for nannying.

Most of the details are here.

While Jimmy has on-court team drama right now with where he will land, he also has some legal drama — because his lawyers are saying they want a forensic accounting of how Kaitlin spends money, and her lawyers are saying she takes care of the kids and doesn’t want to work, etc.

Jimmy and Kaitlin have never been married, as an aside.

Here’s a video where some dude tries to break it all down:

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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