Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler has "reiterated" to team president Pat Riley that he wants to be traded, according to a report ...

Pat Riley and Jimmy Butler, on a years-long collision course of stubbornness and inevitability, have reached their natural conclusion: an impending, public and potentially ugly divorce.

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.

When it was announced that Jimmy Butler was demanding a trade from the Miami Heat, some people wondered just how bitter and nasty things could get.