Can Jimmy Butler be who he was in the bubble? How important is Tyler Herro? Here are six glaring questions Miami must answer.
Before Monday night’s pseudo-reassuring 123–100 win over a Kings team that didn’t have Domantas Sabonis or De’Aaron Fox, the Heat were stuck in a poorly timed free fall.
In between recent losses against the Sixers (without James Harden and Joel Embiid) and Knicks (without Julius Randle), last week Erik Spoelstra threw his clipboard in Jimmy Butler’s direction, a public meltdown that occurred during the third quarter of a game in which they had no answer for Warriors guard Jordan Poole.