For the 119th time since Jimmy Butler joined Miami, the Heat were set to play a game without him. This is different from the others.

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,

The six-time all-star forward, who is embroiled in a standoff with the Miami Heat, has cultivated a second career in specialty coffee.