With just over a week until the NBA trade deadline, Jimmy Butler's time with the Miami Heat appears to be coming to an end. As the six-time All-Star forward's standoff with the franchise continues, a Heat legend believes team president Pat Riley shares in plenty of the blame for the relationship falling apart.
Tim Hardaway, who played from the Heat from 1996 to '01 and has his No. 10 retired by the franchise, thinks Riley gave Butler too much of the leeway that is now being cited in the string of suspensions that the franchise has handed down to its star in January.
