Disgruntled Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler delivered an ultimatum to their team president Pat Riley in a face-to-face meeting, ESPN’s Shams Charania reported on Tuesday, January 14, as the team-imposed seven-game suspension is about to end.

If Pat Riley is going to successfully emerge from the mess he and his team find themselves in, the Miami Heat president will have to take the most difficult advice of his career: His own. For at least the third time in just over a decade,

The Miami Heat’s Jimmy Butler debacle has continued to rage on. Pat Riley has been at the center of the vitriol spewed. As President of Basketball Operations, the onus is on him to decide who gets contract extensions and who doesn’t.

Jimmy Butler's comments about Miami Heat president Pat Riley spark controversy. Learn about their tense relationship.

Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat don’t seem to care about those optics. The Heat suspended Butler for a second time in less than weeks, bringing Butler’s total team-imposed absences this season to nine games.

Pat Riley is at odds with Jimmy Butler and he could demonstrate his power and exact revenge on the star player by accepting one of the three “revenge” trade packages that could be offered to the Miami Heat.

In the past, Riley has occasionally gotten into it with his superstars near the end of their Miami tenures. He had contract tensions with Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade, which prompted Wade's stunning departure to his hometown Chicago Bulls in free agency during the summer of 2016.

Should a trade involving Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler materialize, it might be one of the most complex deals in NBA history. ESPN's Shams Charania

Heat forward Jimmy Butler: You’re not going to outsmart Pat Riley in this stare-down between alpha males. “Jimmy is going up against Pat Riley; he’s going to lose,” Barkley said on TNT on Thursday evening,

Miami Heat stalemate is reaching a stage where it is becoming difficult to stay out of the spotlight. He wants to leave via trade as Pat Riley has made it clear that he won’t give him another high paying contract.

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