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The Miami Heat have lowered their asking price on a trade for Jimmy Butler since they began entertaining offers in December and will almost certainly deal him away by the Feb. 6 trade deadine, reports Brian Windhorst. The Heat suspended Butler for the third separate time on Monday after he walked out of the team's shootaround on Monday. Butler is suspended indefinitely and at least through the trade deadline.

Miami initially didn't want to take back any salary for the 25-26 season and now are holding the line at salary for 26-27. Because the Heat have reduced what it would take to acquire Butler, more teams are now expected to enter the bidding process than just the Phoenix Suns. When Butler initially requested a trade, he had the Suns, Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks on his wish list.

"Jimmy Butler is going to get traded," said Windhorst. "I really am more sure than ever that's going to happen. The Heat are really trying to make that happen. They have backed down on their asks to teams that they had two or three weeks ago when this whole saga really started. They're willing to do more.

"I think that there is really a chance now... I think more teams are going to wade in here because the price on Butler is going to be lower than just the Phoenix Suns, which is the way it's been."

Via Brian Windhorst/ESPN

Player empowerment… with recent trends and his personality they should’ve saw this coming and just got off of him

The issue here though, is just look at what he's done to his value! Jimmy wants another contract. And he's gonna pout and stomp his feet at whatever new team won't give him an extension. If I'm a gm from any other team, there's no way I'm taking this guy. Not unless we've both agreed to a 2-3 year extension first. And I don't think Jimmy's gonna like the extension offers he's gonna get. This new CBA has put the kabosh on these tier-B players getting to ask for max $$. Just ain't gonna work moving forward. And he's just shown what your in for as a GM, if he's not perfectly content.

He thinks he's "winning" this....and yes, he's completely succeeded in squashing any leverage the Heat had. But he'll realize what he did when he see's the offers he has out there moving forward.

So Windy is talking about the Lakers and the Warriors.

It's not new some player prout their way to a new big contract, see PG13 just this last season. Ws were willing to give him one but clippers weren't willing to play ball and help the Ws. Ws might be willing to give Butler a good contract too and it's a risk that's worth it if it's a short term to match Curry's remaining new years peak time. No way Ws would trade for Butler with Kuminga, that's way too much to offer someone whom the Heat just have to trade now on his last contract year.