Pat Riley

Did Pat Riley want Dwyane Wade to leave the Miami Heat? Probably not. We think. Okay, shit, we’re not really sure after finding out this from the Miami Herald‘s Ethan J. Skolnick: [tweet https://twitter.com/EthanJSkolnick/status/751039071187709952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] This was most likely some negotiating ploy. Pat Riley didn’t want to overpay a 34-year-old Wade. There was probably a part [...]

Dwyane Wade’s trip down Free Agency Lane manifested into an unanticipated issue last summer. That’s not going to happen this summer. Wade himself won’t let it, per Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald: Wade told me this week that he does not want to even test the free agent market and instead wants to wrap [...]

So about that whole “LeBron James left the Miami Heat primarily because they wouldn’t can Erik Spoelstra” thing…It might not be true. Bleacher Report’s David Pick provided transcript of an interview with Heat minority owner Raanan Katz, wherein Katz alleged that LeBron had wanted Pat Riley to get rid of Spoelstra. Riley denies those claims, [...]

David Blatt, apparently, never stood a chance with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Not if the words of Miami Heat minority owner Raanan Katz are true. During an interview on ONE.co.il’s 102FM, an Israeli sports talk radio station, Katz alleged that LeBron tried to have Heat coach Erik Spoelstra fired, and then returned to Cleveland when it [...]

With the Spurs 118-91 trouncing of the Utah Jazz last night Gregg Popovich collected his 1,043 regular season coaching victory to move him to 8th on the all-time list, passing Rick Adelman. Congrats to Coach Popovich on moving to 8th on the all-time coaching wins list. pic.twitter.com/DOGi4GYsKc — NBA TV (@NBATV) December 15, 2015 Here [...]

Gregg Popovich and the San Antonio Spurs, it seems, owe Miami Heat president Pat Riley some sort of assorted wine and cheese and movie gift basket. It’s slightly because of him that LaMarcus Aldridge decided to leave the Portland Trail Blazers, spurn overtures from the Phoenix Suns and Dallas Mavericks, among others, and sign in [...]

Sure, LeBron’s no longer there and the luster isn’t quite what it used to be, but Pat Riley has managed to salvage what was left behind by LeBron’s departure and formed another formidable team in Miami. On paper, the starting lineup sounds pretty legit and they are getting a healthy Chris Bosh back. Not only [...]

Pat Riley is an optimist. For this summer at least. Good ol’ Riles isn’t one to sugarcoat his opinion. He tells shit like it is, just as he did after the Miami Heat’s 2014 NBA Finals loss to the San Antonio Spurs, delivering a purposeful, albeit subspoken, message to his Big Three, the entirety of [...]

The Miami Heat are an enigma. Most of the time, in the NBA, that’s considered a bad thing. The best teams offer hope in the form of certainty, not assurances and pipe dreams and potential flexibility and possible, though not guaranteed, returns. But the Heat are different. They’ve always been different. Sort of like how [...]

There’s been another development in the ongoing contract dispute allegedly taking place between Dwyane Wade and the Miami Heat. The dispute in question means nothing. That, or there is no dispute of which to speak. Maybe Pat Riley was riding the post-draft after scooping up Justise Winslow, a top-five talent, with the 10th pick, or [...]