Former Joel Embiid teammate calls out Jimmy Butler for 'accounting error' gripe in trade fiasco: "Be a professional"

Jimmy Butler's relationship with the Miami Heat seems broken beyond repair. The team suspended him for seven games for repeated alleged instances of conduct detrimental to the team.

He went on record, stating that he had lost his joy for the game and wouldn't get it back in Miami, all while also taking some shots at Pat Riley on social media.

Now, a new report states that Butler was also angry at the fact that an accounting error withheld his payment for 10 days last summer. With that in mind, former NBA player Nik Stauskas took to X to call Butler out for this:

"When I played for the Nets in 2018, my first two months I got paid less than what I was owed. Wasn’t until my mom pointed it out to the team, that they corrected it. Errors happen. That’s not a legitimate reason to have a bad relationship with the organization. Be a professional," Stauskas wrote.

Of course, Butler isn't precisely short on cash. He's made north of $300 million in his playing salary alone, and he's slated to make $48 million this year alone.

Jimmy Butler's rift with the Heat is about more than taking private flights to meet his ailing father

Nonetheless, reports surfacing during this rift show that this relationship started to break long before this accounting error.

The Heat alleged that Butler's "insistence in taking private flights away from the team" and repeated instances of skipping shoot-around were major issues.

However, NBA insider Chris Haynes revealed that, while Butler did take some separate flights, it only happened a couple of times. On top of that, they were to visit his father, who had just been diagnosed with an aggressive cancer:

“In the last five years, Jimmy took less than five separate flights from the team, and four of them were during the Finals against Denver, when his father was sick,” Haynes said.

Butler continued to show in and show up for the Heat in the NBA Finals vs. the Nuggets, even though his father had just been given a terminal diagnosis.

Pat Riley is an old-school guy, and as such, he expects players to honor their contracts — as they should.

Then again, there's never just one side to the story. Butler perhaps could've handled his situation differently, but it's not like he hasn't put the Heat on his shoulders over and over.