Erik Spoelstra for warming up on Jimmy Butler’s Suspension – ‘Come Over it’

Milwaukee-Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra delivered a message to his team in the wake of another suspension for Star Forward Jimmy Butler, who will miss this upcoming two-game road trip in Milwaukee and Brooklyn as punishment for missing a team flight .

“The point I did to our team is accustomed to it,” Spoelstra said after a shot on Thursday morning. “Come over it. This is the NBA life; this is the life we ​​chose. If you think it will be predictable, you are really wrong.”

The heat suspended Butler on Wednesday for his “continued pattern for ignoring team rules, insubordinated behavior and behavior harmful to the team, including missing Wednesday’s team flight to Milwaukee,” the team said in a statement, the latest in an ongoing saga between hot and their dissatisfied star.

Before the start of Spoelstra’s media session, an official in Heat Public Relations informed that he would not answer questions about Butler, a practice that was hired for several weeks during the initial suspension.

Butler had just returned Friday from a seven-game team pension for “Several cases of behavior that were detrimental to the team.” He appeared in three matches in averaging 13.0 points in 29.3 minutes to make his latest two-game ban, leaving the heat and prepared to play without him in Milwaukee on Thursday.

“It requires a mental strength and commitment to the current task,” Spoelstra said. “Nothing changes with regard to the current task. We have a game tonight, we have enough continuity, we know what our identity is at this point. You can give any excuse you will but we get to do, What we love.

“We’ve made this happen all season long, so we know the exercise and what we need to do to make these adjustments.”

ESPNS Shams Charania has reported Butler’s desire to be traded since last month, and Friday told sources to ESPN that Heat wants to find an appointment to meet Butler’s wishes.

The NBA Trading Deadline is February 6th.

When he was asked about the butler saga, the Heat Guard Tyler Herro said, “We all know everything that is going on. Not much to talk about.”

“It’s probably not the easiest to work with someone who wants to be in and out of any job,” Herro said on Thursday morning. “We love Jimmy; we would love that he was here. I love Jimmy.”