Jimmy Butler is expected to play for Miami again Friday when it hosts the Denver Nuggets, a game that would be his first since the Heat confirmed that he wants a trade and that they are trying to accommodate that request.

The Miami Heat played their first game since suspending former all- NBA forward Jimmy Butler, matching up against the 7-25 Utah Jazz on Saturday. It could not have gone much worse. Butler was serving the first of a seven-game suspension handed out by the team on Friday for "conduct detrimental to the team."

The ongoing Butler-Heat saga sparked a lively discussion among the studio show’s analysts/former NBA players Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Shaquille O’Neal in the early hours of Wednesday morning after Tuesday night’s games.