Add longtime NBA executive Bob Myers to the long list of people who has had enough of Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler. Butler returned to the court Friday night following a seven-game suspension for conduct detrimental to the team.

After serving a seven-game suspension, primarily not traveling with the team on the road, Jimmy Butler made his return in a Miami Heat jersey. The post Heat Locker Room Reacts to Jimmy Butler’s Return as Erik Spoelstra Maintains Silence on Key Details appeared first on EssentiallySports.

Ahead of Friday night’s game against the Denver Nuggets at Kaseya Center, Erik Spoelstra offered an opening comment about the return of forward Jimmy Butler from his seven-game team unpaid suspension.

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,

With his seven-game suspension over, Jimmy Butler returned to the Heat's starting lineup Friday night against the Nuggets and addressed his future plans with a short statement: "I'm back."

The defeat to the Lakers also marked the first game back by Heat center Bam Adebayo as he missed the Clippers game because of a lower back contusion. He suffered the injury in the win over the Portland Trail Blazers last Saturday after a bad fall right on the back which made him inactive for the first time this season.

Jimmy Butler is back. Officially. His seven-game suspension is over, and he was not listed on the injury report in advance of Friday's game between the Miami Heat and the Denver Nuggets. Less than two hours before tip-off,

Q: Miami ran into a well=oiled machine Friday night. When healthy, Denver is as good as any team in the West and they were healthy and gearing up for the second half of the season. Miami on the other hand looks like a team not really sure where they sit as a team. – Douglas.

It was a mixed bag for Miami Heat fans at the Kaseya Center on Friday. On one hand, their All-Star forward Jimmy Butler returned to the lineup following suspension. But on the other, the team suffered a deflating 133-113 blowout loss to the Denver Nuggets.

In his postgame press conference after Friday’s game against the Denver Nuggets, Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra made it clear that he wasn’t going to add any more layers to the drama between the Heat and star Jimmy Butler.

This is when reality further hit home for the Miami Heat. Mediocre without Jimmy Butler. Mediocre with Jimmy Butler. And, so, a 20-20 Miami Heat record one game from the midpoint of their season, even with Butler back after missing seven games due to a team suspension for “conduct detrimental to the team.