The Heat needed something easy and got it on Sunday, cruising to a drama-free 128-107 blowout win over the San Antonio Spurs (19-22) on Sunday afternoon at Kaseya enter to snap its three-game skid and reach the midway point of the regular season at 21-20.

The embattled forward has again asked for a trade. Here are the top 10 teams who could get a much-needed boost by trading for Jimmy Butler.

Ramona Shelburne of ESPN has come out with the latest report detailing the feelings about Butler's role with Miami and how there was a disconnect on who was being valued. While Butler “wasn't upset” that Bam Adebayo was made the Heat's captain, it proved as “validation” that wasn't his team.

We are now 43 games into the 82-game slate for the Phoenix Suns - and the result to this point haven't necessarily been what was expected coming into

Book has had everything handed to him since James Jones arrived. Promising new rookies. (Josh Jackson, Deandre Ayton, Mikal Bridges and Cam Johnson). All-time great veterans (Chris Paul, Durant and Beal). New coaches (Monty Williams, Frank Vogel and Mike Budenholzer). The franchise has even upgraded the locker room and practice facility.

As the Feb. 6 trade deadline approaches, the Miami Heat still seem unwilling to settle for a weaker return for Jimmy Butler.  Butler still wants a maximum contr

Rookie Kel’el Ware scored 25 points to match his season high, Duncan Robinson added 21 on 5-of-7 3-shooting and the Miami Heat beat the San Antonio Spurs 128-107 on Sunday. Jimmy Butler had eight points and seven assists in his second game since returning from a seven-game suspension for “conduct detrimental to the team.

ESPN's Bobby Marks had an NBA trade that would end the Jimmy Butler trade request saga and send the star to the contending Memphis Grizzlies.

Victor Wembanyama scored 30 points in his first NBA game on his native French soil, Devin Vassell added 25 and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Indiana Pacers 140-110

Victor Wembanyama collected 30 points and 11 rebounds as part of a successful homecoming, leading the San Antonio Spurs to a 140-110 drubbing of the Indiana Pacers on Thursday afternoon in Paris.

The team has lost 19 of its last 28 games, many of those defeats coming with Stephen Curry in uniform, and now sits under .500. It’s an unthinkable collapse for a championship organization considering that Curry is still a top-10 player in the league by many advanced metrics.

Even as Jimmy Butler wants to get out, even as the Miami Heat want to get him out, the reality is that there might not be an easy out . . . as the NBA counts down to the 3 p.m. Feb. 6 NBA trading