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,

Heat president Pat Riley and Heat owner Micky Arison met to talk through their differences. It was a futile effort. Starving this situation of oxygen was going to work for only so long ...

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

The report also added that Butler told Riley in the meeting that “he will ... A separate meeting between Butler and Heat owner Micky Arison is also expected to go down, according to Charania.

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 ...

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.

But at the end of the day, Pat Riley, Micky Arison, Andy Elisburg in that Heat organization, they're going to be the ones that make this final call." Bradley Beal's no-trade clause is the reason ...

Despite his pleas and tactics, Jimmy Butler remains a member of the Miami Heat, at least for now. But new reporting suggests that could be changing

The Butler trade situation summarized. It isn't that complex. • Jimmy Butler wants out of Miami. • Miami wants to get out of the Jimmy Butler business. • Butler is primarily

Butler was informed at morning shootaround that he would come off the bench behind Haywood Highsmith against Orlando, which prompted Butler to walk out of the shootaround. That gave Miami the pretext, and it suspended Butler "indefinitely," a story broken by Shams Charania of The Athletic and since confirmed by the team.

Butler was first suspended by the Heat on Jan. 3 for seven games “for multiple instances of conduct detrimental to the team over the course of the season and particularly the last several weeks. Through his actions and statements, he has shown he no longer wants to be part of this team.”

Jimmy Butler is reportedly standing his ground. ESPN's Shams Charania appeared on Tuesday's episode of NBA Today and said: "Butler has tripled down on