The Miami Heat are willing to listen to trade offers on Jimmy Butler, but a resolution is not necessarily expected to be imminent. The Heat do not appear to have reservations about a scenario where Butler is not traded and then leaves as a free agent during the 2025 offseason.
“The situation is I 100 percent stand behind the reporting,” said Shams Charania on The Pat McAfee Show when asked about Butler’s agent, Bernie Lee, disputing his reporting on the situation. “This is probably the most vetted story I think I have ever put out. I’m that confident in the story.
“This is exactly where it is: the Heat are open to listening to trade offers for Jimmy Butler. That’s what sources told me last week. That remains the case. There’s no urgency though. He’s on a $49 million contract this year. He has a $52 million player option for next year. They don’t really have much fear… let’s say he goes into free agency, they’re not that fearful that there’s a team out there that is going to be willing to give him… because there’s only a few teams with cap space. So who’s out there to give that to him? They’re confident with where they’re at.
“The reporting that I had is that if he were to be moved, there’s four destinations he would be open to from what I’ve been told that’s been indicated around the league. That’s the Mavericks, that’s the Rockets, the Warriors and the Suns. That all remains to be the case. One-thousand percent. And it’s fully, fully vetted.”