Teams are entering the NBA trade deadline with the idea of adjusting their cap situations, while rumors and intel about Jimmy Butler form.
The Miami Heat’s Jimmy Butler debacle has continued to rage on. Pat Riley has been at the center of the vitriol spewed. As President of Basketball Operations, the onus is on him to decide who gets contract extensions and who doesn’t.
If Pat Riley is going to successfully emerge from the mess he and his team find themselves in, the Miami Heat president will have to take the most difficult advice of his career: His own. For at least the third time in just over a decade,
Jimmy Butler says he doesn't want to play in Memphis but trading for him still might be worth the risk for the Grizzlies.
Pat Riley is at odds with Jimmy Butler and he could demonstrate his power and exact revenge on the star player by accepting one of the three “revenge” trade packages that could be offered to the Miami Heat.
If history is an indicator, Jimmy Butler is gone. Perhaps not in the moment, perhaps not this month, but when it comes to suspensions and sanctions issued during the Pat Riley era, a parting is
In the past, Riley has occasionally gotten into it with his superstars near the end of their Miami tenures. He had contract tensions with Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade, which prompted Wade's stunning departure to his hometown Chicago Bulls in free agency during the summer of 2016.
In the pantheon of strange bedfellows amid the Miami Heat’s ongoing differences with Jimmy Butler, frequent critic Charles Barkley emerging as Heat supporter adds another layer to the unexpected. With the Heat featured on TNT on Thursday night (albeit somewhat briefly,
I wonder what Miami Heat president Pat Riley thought hearing Shaquille O’Neal defend Jimmy Butler for quitting on his team. I wonder if he thought, “Shaq quit on us in 2008 just like Jimmy has quit now.
Charles Barkley has a message for disgruntled (and suspended) Heat forward Jimmy Butler: You’re not going to outsmart Pat Riley in this stare-down between alpha males.
Miami Heat stalemate is reaching a stage where it is becoming difficult to stay out of the spotlight. He wants to leave via trade as Pat Riley has made it clear that he won’t give him another high paying contract.