Jimmy Butler announcement that he is leaving Miami heat now another significant issue for team…..

Jimmy Butler is heading from the basketball court to the recording studio.

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the Miami Heat player detailed plans to venture into music with his upcoming debut country album and opened up about how he first connected with the genre — as well as why Garth Brooks inspired him to not play guitar.

Butler, 34, told the outlet he’s been “in the lab writing and producing country music” but wants to keep his collaborators a “surprise,” coyly revealing they’re “some real artists and songwriters.

The date I want to do it always gets pushed back because this other job that I have, playing basketball, kind of overshadows everything,” added Butler, teasing that “some of the songs” could end up on a future follow-up album. “I can’t wait to get it to the people.

He first “fell in love with country music in the fall of 2010” when his fellow athletes at Marquette University wouldn’t stop blasting hip-hop songs in the locker room, so he started playing Tim McGraw’s “Don’t Take the Girl” out of spite.