She was the first of the Boston Breakers’ four first-round draft picks. “I just got done jumping on the trampoline with my two-year-old daughter,” Heap told Byrne, “and it’s hard to get a bigger smile than that. He would frequently have lunch with members of the staff, players and even the media, stopping to say hello or chat up whomever he came across. In such a context, it’d almost be a relief if the whole debacle could be pinned on Howard’s absence.