The Miami Heat bring back essentially the same team from last year, when they once again needed the play-in tournament just to make the playoffs and then were overmatched by Boston on the Celtics’ way to the NBA title.

I want to play as many games as possible,” Butler said after practice on Saturday. “I’ll leave it at that. I don’t need to put a number on the amount of games that I play. I know the more games that I play,

A player who tends to march to the beat of his own drummer, Jimmy Butler hardly has gotten caught up in the Miami Heat’s 3-for-all. While increased output from beyond the arc has been an ongoing storyline with Heat center Bam Adebayo,