Miami has suspended Jimmy Butler for conduct detrimental to the team and he's asked for a trade. We're looking at potential outcomes, what Butler's departure would mean for the Heat, and how this moment could shape the way he's remembered.
Safe to say we can add this one into the long list of articles that I never thought I'd write. Jimmy Butler wants nothing to do with the Miami Heat. He told us he lost his joy playing basketball and t
The ongoing Butler-Heat saga sparked a lively discussion among the studio show’s analysts/former NBA players Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Shaquille O’Neal in the early hours of Wednesday morning after Tuesday night’s games.
Jimmy Butler's efforts to force his way off the Miami Heat have proved fruitless thus far. But it's early days yet. It's been about a month since rumors first popped up that Butler wanted a trade and less than a week since he made it public before getting suspended for conduct detrimental to the team.
The Grizzlies, who do make a lot of sense on paper for both sides, have been told to stay away. Everyone knows the Butler market is soft, and as such Miami is fielding "poo-poo platter" offers, which is funny enough to mention twice. Obviously Miami isn't going to make a trade for that kind of return. So, stay tuned. This could get uglier.
The six-time all-star forward, who is embroiled in a standoff with the Miami Heat, has cultivated a second career in specialty coffee.
MIAMI (AP) — Pat Riley turns 80 in a couple of months. The Miami Heat president has not revealed any retirement timetable. He still wears impeccable suits, shakes hands with as firm of a grip as anyone, knows all eyes are on him when he walks into just about any room.
Butler has officially asked out of Miami, and there is a rising favorite. Where could he land before the NBA trade deadline? See what the odds say.
Jimmy Butler has a history of being a distraction or a detriment to a team when he doesn't get what he wants. As NBA analyst Jason Timpf said, trading him will be very difficult.
The Heat could snag the Milwaukee Bucks’ second-leading scorer in a three-team trade. “When the Milwaukee Bucks decided to trade for star point guard Damian Lillard, many expected them to ascend to the front of the Eastern Conference,” Sports Illustrated’s Matt Levine wrote Monday.
The Miami Heat have been mired in controversy ever since their six-time All-Star and five-time All-Defensive team selection Jimmy Butler made it known that he’d like to be traded to a different organization by season’s end.