With the Miami Heat’s seven-game unpaid suspension of forward Jimmy Butler scheduled to be completed with Wednesday night’s game against the Los Angeles Lakers at Crypto.Com Arena, it is what follows the next day that could determine what comes next in the ongoing saga.

Heat owner Micky Arison is expected to meet with Butler ahead of Butler’s scheduled return Friday night against the Denver Nuggets at Kaseya Center. According to multiple NBA sources familiar with

Riley expressed his thoughts about modern NBA players in an interview with Dan Le Batard as the Jimmy Butler stalemate continues.

According to Charania, Butler told Riley during that meeting that he has no intention of signing a new contract with the Heat during the 2025 offseason and that he would only pick up his $52.4MM player option for 2025/26 in order to facilitate a trade.

Typically, a coach wants as much talent available as possible. But there has been nothing typical about these past two weeks for Erik Spoelstra and the Miami Heat with Jimmy Butler.

Heat owner Micky Arison is expected to meet with Butler ... reiterates trade request in face-to-face meeting with Pat Riley None of this changes the situation: Miami hasn't traded Butler because ...

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If Jimmy Butler indeed is in the midst of his endgame with the Miami Heat, the process hardly is an outlier during Pat Riley’s three decades of stewardship of the franchise.

That is when Heat owner Micky Arison is expected to meet with ... As previously reported by the Sun Sentinel, Butler met with Heat president Pat Riley prior to Riley traveling to Southern ...