The Magic travel to Miami for a Monday matchup that could determine the regular-season series between the in-state foes.
Orlando will aim to stop its three-game road skid when the Magic play Miami. The teams meet Monday for the first time this season.
But as of Sunday, the Heat remained opposed to sending Butler home while paying him. The seven-game suspension cost Butler a total of about $2.4 million in salary, and the two-gam
Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler attended the final day of the Reserve Cup Miami Saturday, a day after cellphone video posted to the @OnlyInDade Instagram account showed him getting into a verbal altercation at the Reserve Padel Club.
Magic’s biggest stars, Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner, had an emotional message for him, dedicating their 121-113 win against the Detroit Pistons on Saturday, which snapped their five-game slide. “We miss you, man. I know you’re back at the crib, in that same spot on the couch,” Franz told his brother after the game.
Banchero, Wagner and Suggs collectively made eight consecutive shots without a miss in a 20-4 run to break open a tight game. Wagner, 1-for-12 from the field through the first three quarters, made nine of 10 shots in the final period for 25 points.
Jimmy Butler is suspended by the Miami Heat for the second time in three weeks, a move that adds to the possibility he has played his final game for the franchise.
Wagner was 1-of-12 from the field going into the fourth but recovered to make 9-of-10, etching his name into franchise history
Jimmy Butler was recently suspended by the Miami Heat for a second time in a month, and the star forward is, once again, expected to return to the team.
In the pantheon of strange bedfellows amid the Miami Heat’s ongoing differences with Jimmy Butler, frequent critic Charles Barkley emerging as Heat supporter adds another layer to the
With the Miami Heat suspending Jimmy Butler once again, the team will once again be without the star for two more games in the current road trip. As the Heat face the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday night, head coach Erik Spoelstra has downplayed the events that have transpired to the organization in recent days.