Saturday’s game against the Hawks marks the start of a back-to-back set for the Heat. Miami will close its three-game trip on Sunday against the Houston Rockets at Toyota Center, with Butler’s status for that game also up in the air.

However, as a forest-fire level of proposed trade talks and alleged demands, which led to Butler's agent reprimanding ESPN's Shams Charania via social media, the "Godfather" of the NBA, Heat's president Pat Riley provided his no-nonsense response to the rumors.

Miami Heat president Pat Riley may have just offered the final word in the Jimmy Butler saga. "We usually don't comment on rumors, but all this