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Pat Riley regrets letting Dwyane Wade leave the Heat

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Miami Heat president Pat Riley admitted Saturday that he regrets letting Dwyane Wade leave the franchise during free agency.

During a press conference to discuss the state of his team at this point in the postseason, Riley opened up about his feeling that he didn’t do enough to convince Wade to stay in Miami, where he had spent his entire career.

Riley admitted that he was surprised that Wade signed with the Chicago Bulls.

“What happened with Dwyane floored me,” Riley said. “I’m going to miss the fact of what I might have had planned for him and his future and how I saw the end and my thought process in how I could see his end here with the Heat... It’s my responsibility to sort of make that happen. I didn’t make it happen. Dwyane left, and the buck stops here.”

Riley said that he should have pulled out all the stops to re-sign the player that has been the face of the franchise, but said the Heat will move on.

“I have great regret I didn’t put myself in the middle of it and immerse myself in the middle of it and get in a canoe and paddle to the Mediterranean if I had to, be in New York when he arrived on [July 6] and greet him at the airport,” Riley said. “I wasn’t there in the middle of the negotiation, and that’s my job. It's not going to be the same without him. We will forge ahead.”
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IT IS WHAT IT IS said:
“I have great regret I didn’t put myself in the middle of it and immerse myself in the middle of it and get in a canoe and paddle to the Mediterranean if I had to, be in New York when he arrived on [July 6] and greet him at the airport,” Riley said. “I wasn’t there in the middle of the negotiation, and that’s my job. It's not going to be the same without him. We will forge ahead.”
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In all seriousness... Pat Riley is a despicable human being. This insincere, disingenuous, passive aggressive bullshit is insulting to anyone reading it...especially DWade.... No you leather face cac, nobody needed you to swim the Nile river, and fly crop dusters and hide in trash cans and whatever other over dramatic bullshit you're selling... You were expected to do your fucking job!!! Pick up the fucking phone and make a fair market offer for the guy who brought you 3 titles and salvaged your overhyped reputation you dishonest piece of shit. How about not offering the greatest player in franchise history a $10million offer in an environment where such an offer has been relegated to fucking bums?!!
 
Amajorfucup said:
In all seriousness... Pat Riley is a despicable human being. This insincere, disingenuous, passive aggressive bullshit is insulting to anyone reading it...especially DWade.... No you leather face cac, nobody needed you to swim the Nile river, and fly crop dusters and hide in trash cans and whatever other over dramatic bullshit you're selling... You were expected to do your fucking job!!! Pick up the fucking phone and make a fair market offer for the guy who brought you 3 titles and salvaged your overhyped reputation you dishonest piece of shit. How about not offering the greatest player in franchise history a $10million offer in an environment where such an offer has been relegated to fucking bums?!!
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Amajorfucup said:
In all seriousness... Pat Riley is a despicable human being. This insincere, disingenuous, passive aggressive bullshit is insulting to anyone reading it...especially DWade.... No you leather face cac, nobody needed you to swim the Nile river, and fly crop dusters and hide in trash cans and whatever other over dramatic bullshit you're selling... You were expected to do your fucking job!!! Pick up the fucking phone and make a fair market offer for the guy who brought you 3 titles and salvaged your overhyped reputation you dishonest piece of shit. How about not offering the greatest player in franchise history a $10million offer in an environment where such an offer has been relegated to fucking bums?!!
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The truth is Micky Arison said no and not Pat.
 
Amajorfucup said:
In all seriousness... Pat Riley is a despicable human being. This insincere, disingenuous, passive aggressive bullshit is insulting to anyone reading it...especially DWade.... No you leather face cac, nobody needed you to swim the Nile river, and fly crop dusters and hide in trash cans and whatever other over dramatic bullshit you're selling... You were expected to do your fucking job!!! Pick up the fucking phone and make a fair market offer for the guy who brought you 3 titles and salvaged your overhyped reputation you dishonest piece of shit. How about not offering the greatest player in franchise history a $10million offer in an environment where such an offer has been relegated to fucking bums?!!
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Amajorfucup said:
In all seriousness... Pat Riley is a despicable human being. This insincere, disingenuous, passive aggressive bullshit is insulting to anyone reading it...especially DWade.... No you leather face cac, nobody needed you to swim the Nile river, and fly crop dusters and hide in trash cans and whatever other over dramatic bullshit you're selling... You were expected to do your fucking job!!! Pick up the fucking phone and make a fair market offer for the guy who brought you 3 titles and salvaged your overhyped reputation you dishonest piece of shit. How about not offering the greatest player in franchise history a $10million offer in an environment where such an offer has been relegated to fucking bums?!!
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Amajorfucup said:
Pat never called the guy. Not once. Played hardball and never paid him the respect he deserved... Mickey picked up the phone and flew to NY to try to clean up Pats mess.. By then the damage was done.
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Neve happened like that. Wade wanted 25 million a year and it was Micky Arison's call to pay him. Micky Arison said no. At that point it was no need for Pat to call Wade as he was not going to attempt to persuade Wade to take less.
 
BrownTurd said:
I am from Miami. This is widely known. Miami simply did not have the cap space to sign Wade.
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I understand the word on the street dynamic. One of my business partners is from and lives in Miami and his wife actually works in administration for the Heat, and per convos with him, this was totally Pats call. He consulted Mickey however it was on Pat to make tue final call, and with upcoming free agency he didnt want to hamstring the teams cap space, especially if Whiteside, Winslow and Richardson continue to progress and make the team more attractive for other FAs. Thats why keeping Whiteside was his priority over Wade.
 
Pat Riley said he regrets letting Dwyane Wade leave the Miami Heat, acknowledging that he was "floored" by the superstar's decision to join theChicago Bulls in free agency.

Riley addressed Wade's departure during a news conference Saturday, one day after the 12-time All-Star officially signed a two-year deal with his hometown Bulls.

"What happened with Dwyane floored me," Riley said. "I'm going to miss the fact of what I might have had planned for him and his future and how I saw the end and my thought process in how I could see his end here with the Heat. ... It's my responsibility to sort of make that happen. I didn't make it happen. Dwyane left, and the buck stops here."​

Wade said last week that a "business" rift with Riley played a significant role in his decision to end his 13-year career with Miami. Wade helped lead the Heat to three NBA championships and is the franchise's all-time leading scorer.

Riley, the Heat's president, admitted that he was not as involved in the negotiation process as he needed to be in order to retain Wade, who turned down Miami's two-year, $40 million offer earlier this month in favor of Chicago's two-year, $47 million offer.

Riley wasn't in New York when the Heat last met with Wade on July 6, only a few hours before he announced that he was picking Chicago. In that last meeting, which was handled by Heat managing general partner Micky Arison and CEO Nick Arison, the team's offer was raised slightly -- though not to the level of what Chicago was able to pay.

"I have great regret I didn't put myself in the middle of it and immerse myself in the middle of it and get in a canoe and paddle to the Mediterranean if I had to, be in New York when he arrived on the 6th and greet him at the airport," Riley said. "I wasn't there in the middle of the negotiation, and that's my job. It's not going to be the same without him. We will forge ahead."
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Riley said he believes Wade's decision wasn't fueled by money, but rather something else.

"That is where we both failed ... I more than he, because he's the asset, he's the star, he's the face of the franchise,'' Riley said. "I should have done everything that I could have verbally in trying to change his mindset to mine, a big picture, a better picture, or one that I thought would help him."​

Whether that would have worked is unknown, and irrelevant now anyway. Wade went home to Chicago, and for the Heat it's time for the aftermath that follows whenever there's a superstar-level goodbye. Riley has been through it plenty of times before in Miami, whether it was Alonzo Mourning or LeBron James or Shaquille O'Neal or Brian Grant or Eddie Jones.

This, Riley said, is different.

"We've had a tough summer," he said.

Riley said he hasn't spoken with Wade since he decided to leave the Heat. Riley has been working on an email to send Wade at some point, and he expects that when they see each other again, a warm embrace will be involved.

"My thoughts were always to try to make the team better and at the same time try to make sure that Dwyane, over the course of the three, four, five years that he had left in his career, that he was going to get his money," Riley said. "He would get it -- but not at the expense of paralyzing our ability to win. If there's anything I could have done better, I would have done it. But right now, there's no do-overs in this thing."

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
 
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-heat/sfl-miami-heat-erik-spoelstra-s071816-story.html


n Pat Riley and the Miami Heat began negotiating an extension with coachErik Spoelstra it was with a different job description.

The expectation was Spoelstra would be continuing on alongside Dwyane Wade, with the possibility of Kevin Durant being added to the mix.

That was then . . . in June.

Now there is something closer to what Spoelstra experienced when he first took over in 2008, when Riley moved from the bench to a full-time role as Heat president.-

"Erik has been through this before," Riley said, "because his first two years after I retired he had contending teams, competitive teams, playoff teams. Obviously, they weren't championship teams. I thought he did a hell of a job at that time in starting his coaching career with teams that were competitive and also playoff teams.

"Then he had the four years where I think he really earned his stripes as a head coach with four [NBA] Finalsfinishes and two world championships."

To a degree, Spoelstra moves forward as he has the past two years since LeBron James returned to the Cleveland Cavaliers, after James, Wade and Chris Bosh had put the Heat in the NBA Finals from 2011 to 2014.

Amar'e Stoudemire, Beno Udrih were shuffled in, along with rookies Justise Winslow and Josh Richardson. This season, the veteran additions include Derrick Williams, Luke Babbitt, James Johnson and Wayne Ellington, as well as youthful pieces Briante Weber and Rodney McGruder.

As has been the case, there again is uncertainty with Bosh, who has missed the second half of the past two seasons due to blood clots and again stands as a question mark.

"I know one thing about him," Riley said of Spoelstra, "he's competitive and excited and knows what the challenge is."

Because of the Heat's "one voice" approach in the offseason, Spoelstra was not made available for his annual summer-league interview last week in Las Vegas, also pulled from a scheduled televised halftime interview.

Instead, it was Riley who spoke for what Spoelstra already has contributed to this remix, and what could be further culled going forward.

"He does love the guys that he's already developed," Riley said, bristling at Spoelstra being deemed solely a development coach. "He's not a developmental coach. We have a developmental program, which he works really hard at improving from within.

"His philosophy as coach to me is, 'Bring them to me and I'll coach them.' That's it. That's the way it has to be right now."

Although Wade's free-agent departure to the Chicago Bulls caught the entire organization off-guard, Riley said there was no blindside with what followed. Spoelstra had been granted personnel input as part of his previous contract agreement.

"He's very involved in the process all the time," Riley said. "Every single player that we talk about or sign, he gives the nod, because I don't want to send him anybody that he doesn't want."

With Spoelstra only days from his wedding, with his staff coming off two weeks of summer-league coaching, and with most of the personnel reshuffle completed, Riley said this should be a time for an exhale for the entire staff, stressing that Spoelstra assistants Dan Craig, Juwan Howard and Chris Quinn also would be taken care of contractually. Additional assistants also are expected to be added, with assistant David Fizdale leaving to become coach of the Memphis Grizzlies and assistant Keith Smartmoving over to Fizdale's staff.

"I think it’s time to step back," Riley said. "Summer league is over with. All of the coaches need to go somewhere to relax.

"I think that's what everybody in our organization needs to do. They've been pushing real hard since the draft and then we'll see what we have. I'll be looking forward to the guys starting to come back in late August and early September. The process never changes, faces do. People come and go, and the process never changes and the machine keeps rolling down that track."
 
Big Tex said:
:lol:

Nah, we gonna need a link lil fella.
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You are wild! :lol:
Im not disrespecting Dude but it is what it is. Even Pat is going on a damage control mission because he know he fucked up in terms of perception....

Look at the words coming directly from Pat.... All Im saying...
 
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ents-on-chris-boshs-status-for-2016-17-season

Miami Heat president Pat Riley held a press conference Saturday in which he touched on the precarious future of star forward Chris Bosh's career.

A recurring blood clot, which prevented Bosh from appearing in the second half of the season and the playoffs, has cast doubt as to whether he can play basketball anymore. Riley addressed Bosh's outlook regarding the 2016-17 season, per the Palm Beach Post's Jason Lieser:

It’s a positive environment right now with Chris, and I think his doctors and our doctors are constantly communicating. I know what Chris wants. I know he wants to play. Obviously, we would be open to that.

But this is still a very fluid situation. On this day, there's not an answer. I wish I could give you one. Let's just let this process move on down the road and go from there.

Lieser noted long flights and the traveling demands that accompany anNBA schedule can be "problematic" for Bosh. Riley addressed that element of the situation, too:

I think all those things will come into play and there'll be a discussion. There are many players in different sports that do play with that condition, and they're on-and-off programs with blood thinners and stuff. But I think when it comes down to a final protocol, or a formula for how this has to be done, then that's what we'll deal with.

Bosh has missed the second half of each of the past two seasons because of blood-clot issues. The Heat still managed to advance to the second round of the postseason without him last year, but they then proceeded to lose longtime face of the franchise Dwyane Wade to theChicago Bulls in free agency.

Even without Wade in the fold, Riley has built a solid squad in Miami in the post-LeBron James era. Unfortunately, it hasn't been able to fully realize its potential because of Bosh's medical issues.

"From a basketball standpoint, I've been told we're sort of put on hold here," Riley said, per Lieser. "We know what Chris is capable of and...you just never know what you could have done as a team. That's what kills me. That we put together a good team right after (LeBron James) left, but we never had an opportunity to see it as its full."

Bosh's ability to shoot from three-point range, create off the dribble and function as a center in smaller lineups makes him a prototypical big man for the modern NBA. He's played well over the past two seasons when healthy, having averaged 20.0 points and 7.2 rebounds per game during that span.

The Heat have an exceptional center in Hassan Whiteside, who's an elite shot-blocker and is only beginning to unlock his potential. Dynamic perimeter players such as floor general Goran Dragic and forward Justise Winslow provide the Heat with plenty of athleticism and firepower as well.

But Bosh is the X-factor who could be the difference between Miami being an also-ran playoff team and a conference finalist.

The scrutiny regarding Riley's inability to retain Wade this summer will only increase if the Heat don't have a strong 2016-17 campaign. How well Miami fares will be largely tied to Bosh, who's due more than $23.7 million in salary this coming season, per Spotrac, and has two additional years left on his contract.

Although he's still capable of playing at a high level, Bosh's blood-clot issues have complicated how Riley and Co. can build Miami's roster and muddies the forecast for the Heat's collective upside.
 
BeatDownRecords said:
They have Tyler Johnson 50 mill... Nuff said
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Yep... How much sense does that make. You let the face of your franchise walk over 7-10 mill and sign Dude to 50 mill? All on Pat Bruh, as arrogant a control freak as he is no way hes gonna let Mickey run him like that. He would bounce before becoming a yes man....
 
All I'm saying is I told you so.

He would be a pos behind the scenes and in front of the camera. ..

I regret not doing enough.

You didn't even try nor did you care.

Wade ain't walking back through that door

Tyler Johnson and Whiteside were more important than wade was to you.
 
largebillsonlyplease said:
All I'm saying is I told you so.

He would be a pos behind the scenes and in front of the camera. ..

I regret not doing enough.

You didn't even try nor did you care.

Wade ain't walking back through that door

Tyler Johnson and Whiteside were more important than wade was to you.
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Yep... Told the brethren back in 2014 Riley wasnt shit...
 
I never thought erik spoelstra would outlast LBJ...wade...and possibly bosh AND riley lol
 
IT IS WHAT IT IS said:
Yep... How much sense does that make. You let the face of your franchise walk over 7-10 mill and sign Dude to 50 mill? All on Pat Bruh, as arrogant a control freak as he is no way hes gonna let Mickey run him like that. He would bounce before becoming a yes man....
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He was used to getting Wade to agree to getting fucked over in these deals. He gambled that Wade was bluffing and would take anothe shitty deal to stay in Mia.

Wade called his bluff.
 
Big Tex said:
He was used to getting Wade to agree to getting fucked over in these deals. He gambled that Wade was bluffing and would take anothe shitty deal to stay in Mia.

Wade called his bluff.
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Not really. He got out of Wade what he wanted. Sort of like trading in a bitch after you get tired of fucking her. Pimped Wade's prime years for less than what he was worth and when Wade wanted back pay Riley basically told him to go fuck himself... Now Riley is playing that CAC sympathy card and because he is a CAC all will be forgiven. :smh:
 
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I understand the word on the street dynamic. One of my business partners is from and lives in Miami and his wife actually works in administration for the Heat, and per convos with him, this was totally Pats call. He consulted Mickey however it was on Pat to make tue final call, and with upcoming free agency he didnt want to hamstring the teams cap space, especially if Whiteside, Winslow and Richardson continue to progress and make the team more attractive for other FAs. Thats why keeping Whiteside was his priority over Wade.
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Being Pat's call was coming completely false. I am not sure where he got that from. But far from the truth.
 

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