ESPN's Shams Charania reported Tuesday morning that Butler, who's currently serving a seven-game suspension for multiple instances of conduct detrimental to the team, had a face-to-face meeting with team president Pat Riley last week and reiterated that he wants to be traded and will not sign a new deal in Miami.

This wasn’t anything as dramatic as a passing of the torch from one Miami Heat leading man to another. LeBron James was long gone from the Heat before Tyler Herro arrived in 2019. But Heat past and present both had their moments Wednesday night at Crypto.