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[KillerLeft]

Maybe.  Or maybe just a public rebuke for behavior that doesn't reflect the team's values.

Oh, sure, that’s exactly what it is. But every time Butler gets sideways with a team like this, he moves on. There’s a long pattern.

And, unless I missed one, the last time Pat Riley spoke out publicly like this against one of his own players his when he knew ahead of time that LeBron was leaving to go back to Cleveland. 

There have actually been stories for a couple of weeks that heat officials have been trashing Butler behind the scenes.