"I understand this generation of players and how they want to go about living their life," Riley said. "It's different in the music they listen to and how they brand themselves and what they wear and how they dress.

On the day an interview with Miami Heat President Pat Riley dropped regarding dealing with player empowerment, more clarity emerged about the ongoing team suspension of forward Jimmy Butler. Amid the unpaid seven-game suspension of Butler,

Heat president Pat Riley may have taken a veiled shot at Jimmy Butler with his recent comments about what being under contract entails.