Rasual Butler does not just miss basketball. He longs for the bus rides and the shootaround sessions, the locker rooms and the crowds, the teammates and the opponents.
A graduate of Roman Catholic and La Salle, Butler has not been a consistent NBA starter in seven years and has not played at all in 16 months. But the league gave him more than minutes.
Butler is 38. He has never averaged more than a dozen points in a season. His agent is letting teams know that he is still interested in playing, but he will likely never again take the court in a sold-out arena.