Butler was indeed back, scoring 18 points in 33 minutes in a Heat loss to the Nuggets, where Denver was comfortably in charge ...

“I’m very honored,” Ohtani said through translator Matt Hidaka in an exclusive interview with the AP. ”Obviously all the hard work has paid off. Maybe next year, I’ll get the award again.” ...

Melton held several different jobs after his retirement — one of them being to help Michael Jordan during his brief stint as a baseball player ... later joining NBC Sports Chicago in 2005.