Basketball fans have spent months creating hypothetical trades involving Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler. Heat president Pat Riley and ESPN NBA insiders Brian Windhorst and Tim Bontempts all spent Thursday throwing cold water on the idea.

However, as a forest-fire level of proposed trade talks and alleged demands, which led to Butler's agent reprimanding ESPN's Shams Charania via social media, the "Godfather" of the NBA, Heat's president Pat Riley provided his no-nonsense response to the rumors.

In the wake of increasing conjecture of Jimmy Butler pushing for a trade and the team considering a trade, Miami Heat President Pat Riley on Thursday issued a terse and pointed statement on the