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,

Heat president Pat Riley and Heat owner Micky Arison met to talk through their differences. It was a futile effort. Starving this situation of oxygen was going to work for only so long ...

Jimmy Butler is reportedly standing his ground. ESPN's Shams Charania appeared on Tuesday's episode of NBA Today and said: "Butler has tripled down on