Jimmy Butler Returns, Miami Heat Lose to Denver Nuggets | Locked On Heat Podcast
Jimmy Butler returned to the Miami Heat following his seven-game suspension, and the Heat lost to the Denver Nuggets on Friday night. Wes Goldberg was at Kaseya Center and talks about the atmosphere at the arena, vibe around the team, how Butler played and what comes next.
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25 Comments
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Excellent episode. Great commentary and analogies. On point 👏
He’s going to continue to give this minimal effort til the season ends. He’s playing with enough effort to where you can’t say he didn’t try therefore you cannot suspend him, but he’s not going to play hard enough to where he’s going to jeopardize his health… for his next team. And that’s the problem, you can’t play a guy whose focus is on another team. It’s unfair to the rest of the guys. I’d rather watch the young guys develop and figure out how to succeed individually within the team than watch the young guys + Jimmy play.
Bench him, send him away, do
Something to keep him off the floor.
“A coworker with some coworkers just doing the stuff” Lmao
We definitely need to look into what return we can get for Bam. We will never use him at his correct position with this coach so we need to move on.
He don't want to be here it showed last night
They have to trade him by the deadline so they can start fresh.
The problem is the coach with these trash lines up he throwing out there. Until Spo gets over his ego and put bam ware jovic hero we stuck in neutral. we’re not winning the championship this year regardless. why are we not getting our guys reps together🤦🏽♂️
I'm so glad that Jimmy is aware of your role in the negativity being spread about him. Smh!
See he's a toxic player, smirking not playing intelligently that's a sign of a malcontent washed player! He's got nothing left! Prove us wrong Jimmy..
He really is on a decline he's 35 and wants more money! Pat is right about this guy
If i'm Pat or Mickey i'll find a way to suspend this player again just to make him realized what he's done to the Heat! That is a toxic guy were watching play ball, his intention is to embarass his teammates & the owner of the team including Spo Pat Andy Adam & loyal fans of the team
What a toxic quitter! K Love if u insist on Butler u also has to go…u dont have to pamper a grown ass man!?! Prove us wrong Jimmy
Keep Butler — dump Spo
When does embarrassment set in for this franchise? Why should the players have pride for this team, knowing the rest of the league is looking at us like, “what a mess it is over there”?
There is no saving this season, and I shudder to think about how they will continue to try…to the detriment of developing the young guys.
We are doing all the wrong stuff with Jimmy, we continue to send Rozier out there for 25 + minutes a night to lose all of those minutes, we keep looking to Bam to be more than he has demonstrated to be for 40 straight games.
What are we doing? Why are we doing this? We’re like Golden State, trying to squeeze something out of what is no longer there. At least they have 4 rings to fuel their delusion.
Any other respectable franchise would sell off their highest ticket players, recoup as much assets as possible in return, and start fresh. We even have good stuff to pivot to if we accept that we are years away from a chip no matter what we do.
We could trade Bam and get a lot of picks for it. We could trade Tyler too if we want even more. Then we wouldn’t have to be prisoner to the pick protections that we are desperately trying to make the playoffs for so that we can drag this thing out further. We are only setting ourselves back even more.
Most of us have lost faith in Pat, and a lot of us are losing it in Spo.
I think this team needs to get the stink off of it and rebuild around Jovic and Ware.
You 're dreaming, paranoid!
You have no players, you want Jemmy to do everything.!
Here we go, baby! Jimmy is back! Can't wait to watch him statpad us to a 35% winrate!
Jimmy to rockets done
I've heard a rumor about the Bucks for Portis and Middleton (both expiring in summer 2026). I'd pull the trigger there. Get Butler out. Play the rest of the season out with Portis helping in the paint. Middleton off the bench (locker room guy). Continue to develop the younger guys this and next season… summer of '26… Duncan, Rozier, Portis, Middleton all expire and you have the cap space you need to make some moves, and Miami will know who of the younger guys stays and who gets traded.
Most importantly, Jimmy does not care about the Heat winning. He is just collecting a pay check.
Because Pat won't pay him! It not Jimmy. If he doesn't want to trade him why is Riley holding out paying him? That the drama your missing in your message.
@lockedonheat To comment about one of the statements related to the oddness of all this with Jimmy and his being with the team, and this not really being seen before. There is one moment I remember tied to basketball that is similar. I think it was an old movie from the 70s called "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh". If I remember correctly, there was a scene where a player was on the court holding a sign that said 'Trade Me'. That's all that's missing from this Jimmy situation. But this situation with Jimmy reminds me of that movie scene.
So, Heat fans, is this still a team worth walking out on in the fourth quarter, or are they first quarter abandonment material now? 🤣
I don't know about Bam ?😱👎