Friday night was not the end, even with Jimmy Butler’s seven-game unpaid Miami Heat suspension drawing to a close. Instead, based on Butler’s postgame comments, as the Heat turned from Friday night’s loss to the Denver Nuggets to Sunday’s visit by the San Antonio Spurs,

Jimmy Butler is back with the Miami Heat after his suspension, but nothing has really changed. Butler wants the Heat to trade him and the Heat will continue to try to fulfill that request ahead of the NBA’s Feb. 6 trade deadline.

Miami Heat saga has dominated NBA headlines for the better part of the season; after all, it's not every day that a superstar of Butler's caliber decides he's pretty much done with his current team. And it's even less frequent that that team who has that superstar publicly digs in its heels and chastises that star player publicly,