After two months of waiting for a resolution, the Miami Heat finally found one for the Jimmy Butler saga on Wednesday night -- while the team was playing in Philadelphia against the 76ers.
It made for a strange scene, with players on the bench getting informed by fans about one of the NBA trade deadline's most impactful moves as the game was being played, and still trying to put the pieces together once they had emerged from the contest with a 108-101 victory.
But the oddities of the end of this affair were quickly overwhelmed by a palpable sense of relief inside the visiting locker room.