One thing is clear by now, and that is: the Miami Heat and Jimmy Butler saga is far from over. The post NBA Insider Confirms Jimmy Butler’s Status After Suspension as Pat Riley’s $52 Million Trade Mission Finally Succeeds appeared first on EssentiallySports.

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,

Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler attended the final day of the Reserve Cup Miami Saturday, a day after cellphone video posted to the @OnlyInDade Instagram account showed him getting into a verbal altercation at the Reserve Padel Club.

Butler was said to be “caught off guard” by the comments according to Barry Jackson of The Miami Herald. There have been many events that have led to the fractured relationship between Butler and the Heat with the one mentioned by Haynes being when the team questioned the effort level.

The indefinite suspension all but closes a complicated chapter of Butler's 13-year career. A former six-time All-Star, Eastern Conference Finals MVP and the leader of two teams who went to the NBA Finals, Butler has taken each of his four franchises to heights they have struggled to replicate without him.

A Miami Heat insider reveals how LeBron James' 2014 exit from the team is impacting Pat Riley's Jimmy Butler decision

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.

The Miami Heat and Golden State Warriors have the chance to pull off one of the most surprising blockbuster trades in the history of the NBA.

For the past few weeks, every Jimmy Butler trade report has contained one common theme: Butler wants out of Miami, but he doesn't want to go to Memphis. For one

Should a trade involving Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler materialize, it might be one of the most complex deals in NBA history. ESPN's Shams Charania