A little more than a week after Miami Heat president Pat Riley declared the team will not trade Jimmy Butler, the Heat said on Friday that “Jimmy Butler and his representative have indicated that they wish to be traded,

Jimmy Butler says he needs to find joy again on the basketball court. And when asked if he can find that joy in Miami, he had a two-word answer. “Probably not,” he said. The relationship between Butler and the Heat — a talking point for weeks now — seems to have further deteriorated.