Heat star Jimmy Butler could be the biggest name moved before the NBA Trade Deadline. Can he help the Nuggets get back on top?

The Miami Heat were at Chase Center on Tuesday night. Jimmy Butler wasn’t. The temperamental superstar’s feud with his organization reached a boiling point in recent days, with Butler’s demands to be traded resulting in a suspension handed down by the team that just so happened to coincide with its six-game swing up and down the West Coast.

The Jimmy Butler trade saga got another development this week when his list of preferred destinations was revealed to the world. Contrary to initial thinking, there's only one team that Butler wants to join right now: the Phoenix Suns.

Their spirit was willing but the depleted Nuggets couldn’t quite hang with the defending NBA champions Celtics Tuesday night at Ball Arena. Playing without center Nikola Jokic, who was scratched before the game with a non-COVID illness,

Three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic was sidelined for Denver’s clash with Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics on Tuesday night because of an illness.