Just when you thought Jimmy Butler v. Miami Heat had traversed every pathway of the absurd came background issued Thursday, a day after the Heat suspended Butler for two games for missing a team flight.

On Wednesday, the Miami Heat suspended Jimmy Butler for the second time in January. The star forward played three games with the team beginning on Friday before Miami suspended Butler for two games due to "insubordinate conduct and conduct detrimental to the team" after the 35-year-old missed the team's flight to play the Milwaukee Bucks at Fiserv Forum on Thursday night.

While Jimmy Butler will seemingly play for any team other than the Miami Heat, there is reportedly one squad he doesn't want to be part of. Per ESPN's Marc

The Miami Heat have suspended Jimmy Butler for two games due to a "continued pattern of disregard of team rules, insubordinate conduct and conduct detrimental to the team," the te

The delicate dance continued for the Miami Heat at Thursday morning’s shootaround at Fiserv Forum, the ongoing discussion about Jimmy Butler’s absences amid the team stressing in advance that coach Erik Spoelstra would not be taking questions on the subject.

The Milwaukee Bucks have become a heavily rumored trade destination for Suns guard Bradley Beal in recent days, and on paper, the fit makes some sense. Milwaukee was interested in

Bill Simmons came up with a four-team trade that would involve Butler heading to Phoenix. He said on his podcast : "Well, the trade I came up with was Butler to the Suns, Beal to the Bucks, Miami gets Khris Middleton, Steven Adams from Houston and Cam Whitmore from Houston, and Houston gets Brook Lopez, and that actually works."

The Jimmy Butler situation with the Miami Heat appears to be getting worse by the day after the six-time All-Star was suspended for the second time in

Jimmy Butler was all smiles and shaking hands while at a private dinner party in Miami just hours after the Heat announced his second suspension in three weeks on Wednesday.

The Miami Heat and Jimmy Butler drama continued Tuesday night. The Heat announced Butler is suspended two games again for conduct detrimental to the team. This

The Miami Heat suspended Jimmy Butler for a second time this month on Wednesday after he missed the team flight to Milwaukee. In a statement, the club said Butler was suspended "for (a) continued pattern of disregard of team rules,