"I've talked to guys in that locker room, and to say they have had it is an understatement because he has disrespected them so much," she said. "The way he's been in and out, 'oh last minute, not playing,' the way he's been acting towards in their locker room, I mean staff and other people like that, and then the stunt with them making them wait for hours on the tarmac even to show up?"

After Butler's relationship with the Heat began publicly breaking down, ESPN's Ramona Shelburne detailed the issues that had been bubbling to the surface, particularly the special privileges he was being afforded. She reported that "alumni and staffers started to express concern at how much leeway the Heat were giving Butler."

Having already suspended him for seven games for conduct detrimental to the team, the Heat issued another two-game suspension as a result of a "continued pattern of disregard of team rules, insubordinate conduct and conduct detrimental to the team, including missing today's team flight to Milwaukee."

The trouble didn't end there, with Miami suspending the 6'7" forward again, indefinitely this time, after walking out of a practice.