A throng of college students waited at the exit of the gym on the campus of Barry University, lining a path the Golden State Warriors took to their team bus. Stephen Curry had already exited following practice.

Jimmy Butler has been through these first-game-back matchups against former teams before. He got a standing ovation and a tribute video at Chicago in 2018. He got jeered in Minnesota in 2019. He got downright booed in his return to Philadelphia later that year.