A 136-100 loss to the Jazz in the first game of Jimmy Butler's suspension

For the 119th time since then Jimmy Butler joined Miami, the Heat played a game without him.

This was different from the others.

And it went very – very – bad for Miami.

Butler is gone, banished by the Heat for seven games for what they called conduct detrimental to the team — and likely won’t play for Miami again. His suspension began Saturday night when the Heat played the Utah Jazz, and the team says it will agree to his wishes and try to facilitate trade.

The first game of Butler’s suspension was a disaster: The Jazz, who came in 7-25, blew a 43-point lead and ended up winning 136-100. They outshot Miami 57-32, and it didn’t seem that close.

“It’s disappointing when you see an organization and a player struggle like that,” the Heat captain Bam Adebayo he said Saturday after the team’s practice. “But the rest of us have to figure out how to win.”

They didn’t realize it on Saturday. Not even close.

They haven’t lost a game by more than 19 all season. They lost this game by 36, the sixth-most home losses in franchise history.

Butler has not publicly commented on the suspension. The National Basketball Association spoke out on Butler’s behalf hours after the Heat announced the suspension Friday, saying it believed the team’s actions were “excessive and inappropriate.” The suspension could cost Butler about $2.4 million of his $48.8 million salary this season.

“It’s none of our business,” Adebayo said. “It’s up to Jimmy and the management.”

How it will be handled from here, and in what time frame, is anybody’s guess.

There was a new starting lineup without Butler: Miami opened the game with Terry Rozier, Tyler Herro, Highwood Highsmith, Nikola Jovic and Adebayo. The butler’s cabinet is still as he left it, shower shoes resting on the drawer under the seat, a few items hanging on hooks and a few things taped to the wall. It will be cleaned up at some point, but he’s still part of the team.

For now, anyway.

“We’re just going to focus on tonight,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said before the game. “I want to silence all the distractions. Enough said. We have clarity. We’re just going to focus on this group in the dressing room is what I want them to focus on and quiet the noise as much as possible, so you won’t get anything else from me the task that needs do.”

Utah will see Miami twice during Butler’s suspension; The Heat play in Salt Lake City on Thursday. Jazz coach Will Hardy knows that without Butler, he won’t change Spoelstra’s approach.

“They have consistency in their program from a competitive standpoint and you know it doesn’t matter who’s playing,” Hardy said. “You come here, you play in Miami in your building, it’s going to be 48 minutes of high competition, physical basketball.” Spo showed that the whole time he was in Miami.”

Trading Butler will be a challenge in these NBA times, with collective bargaining agreement rules limiting the ways teams can acquire players. It is possible, but far from certain. And the Heat simply letting Butler leave as a free agent this summer also remains a possibility — a move that would open up some other avenues for Miami to acquire new players before next season.

“It’s awful to see he’s not going to be there,” Rozier said.

Butler averaged 21.7 points, 6.2 rebounds and 5.7 assists in 380 games with the Heat, including the playoffs. Entering Saturday, since Butler joined the Heat, they had won 59.7% of their games when he played (227-153); they won 49.2% of their games when he wasn’t there (58-60).

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He became eligible last summer for a two-year, $113 million extension. The Heat never offered a deal, in part because Butler missed about a quarter of the team’s games during his tenure in Miami.

It was only natural that such a large sum of money not offered would lead to trouble. And the tension boiled over this week. Butler did not play in the fourth quarter of Wednesday’s and Thursday’s games at Miami; he spent some offensive possessions simply standing in the corner, almost as if he had no role to play.

“I feel like he came to work, he tried to perform, but it just didn’t work,” Adebayo said. “I feel like he didn’t want to be in a corner.” But like I said, we developed a system where we play with everyone, and we just had to figure out how to turn it on. But after what happened yesterday, we’re… we’re focused on who’s with us now.”

After the second of those games earlier this week, Butler said “probably not” when asked if he thought he could find joy on the court again in Miami.

Saying those two words may have been his last official act as a member of the Heat. A week ago, Miami had no interest in trading Butler. Hearing him say he didn’t want to be on the team anymore obviously changed things.

“It’s hard not to see him around,” Jovic said.

Associated Press reports.

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