We talk a lot about “championship windows” in the NBA. Those four-to-five-year stretches when a team can plausibly win it all usually open out of nowhere, when a young team finds their footing or makes that final all-in trade. But they close just as suddenly. Teams fall apart, the league passes them by. Assets are stripped away in search of extending them, cap room disappears as a result of them, and then the stars holding the passage open get old before you knew they were aging. Windows are a merciless world.
For the Miami Heat, their window both opened and closed because of one man’s efforts: Jimmy Butler.
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