Butler, 35, had been suspended for "detrimental conduct," which cost him approximately $2.36 million in lost salary.

Jimmy Butler returned to the Miami Heat as planned on Friday, going through the team’s walkthrough in advance of their game against the Denver Nuggets

Jimmy Butler is expected to play for Miami again Friday when it hosts the Denver Nuggets, a game that would be his first since the Heat confirmed that he wants a trade and that they are trying to accommodate that request.

Perhaps little says as much about the convoluted current relationship between Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat as this: The team has reached the end game of its seven-game unpaid suspension of the former All-Star forward with the situation nonetheless ongoing.

The 20-19 Miami Heat are set to take on the Denver Nuggets at home Friday with Jimmy Butler making his anticipated return from a seven-game suspension. In the midst of a seemingly endless trade saga,