The Miami Heat have suspended Jimmy Butler for seven games and say they will seek to trade him. The Heat say the suspension was for “conduct detrimental to the team over the course of the season and particularly the last several weeks.

Pat Riley went public with the same message that the Miami Heat had been sending privately: "We are not trading Jimmy Butler." One week later, Butler said he wanted to "get my joy back from playing basketball,

The tipping point apparently came in the wake of Wednesday’s victory over the New Orleans Pelicans when it came to Jimmy Butler’s souring relationship with the Miami Heat turning toxic. In the wake of an uneven effort that night by Butler,