![]() ![]() They taught me so much, and I wish I could have gotten it done for these guys because they definitely deserve it,” Butler said. “You never know what the team’s gonna look like next year or the year after that. It could be the only way to tangibly raise Miami’s ceiling given no one expected they would make it to the Finals in the first place - and likely fewer expect the Heat to return in the years to come without a landscape-altering mega deal. The Heat need another closer, given their current one couldn’t get it done. Just any old firepower, however, won’t do. With the June 22 NBA Draft looming and free agency commencing shortly thereafter, there will be no shortage of opportunities for the Heat to explore adding additional firepower to a team that made the conference finals two years in a row. The Heat have already been rumored to have interest in Portland Trail Blazers’ bona fide superstar Damian Lillard, and Miami can put together an attractive trade package built around Herro, role players and draft compensation. Herro broke his wrist in Game 1 of the first-round series against the Bucks and missed nearly two months of action before receiving clearance to play in Monday night’s elimination Game 5. ![]() Maybe Heat coach Erik Spoelstra should have turned to Tyler Herro. On the very next possession, with time on the shot clock to create a better look, Butler attempted to tie the game on a turnaround fading three from the top of the key. “I turned the ball over,” Butler said of the game’s final two minutes. He then fumbled a potential Game 6 away in Game 5′s final 30 seconds: First by driving into the paint, losing his footing, then throwing the ball directly to Denver’s Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, a sequence that turned a one-point game into a three-point deficit and cost Miami a valuable timeout. Butler’s short-lived, late-game theatrics may have impressed the untrained eye, but it was too little, too late for a player who had shot just 2-of-13 through the first three quarters.
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