The Miami Heat and Jimmy Butler are finally moving on from each other — and it's the right move for both sides.

Pat Riley and Jimmy Butler, on a years-long collision course of stubbornness and inevitability, have reached their natural conclusion: an impending, public and potentially ugly divorce. The Heat confirmed as much on Friday,

The Miami Heat have a midseason mess, because after two trips to the NBA Finals and another to the Eastern Conference final in Jimmy Butler’s five years they refused to give the aging forward a golden parachute near his career’s end.