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TrueHoop (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
... after watching what happened in Boston? The only interesting wrinkle would be to see how Pat Riley would figure out firing Erik Spolestra so that he could jump back in as coach.
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Miami Heat (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
It was a mostly overlooked moment in a mostly overlooked season. As the Heat prepared for 2007-08, Pat Riley decided he had one definitive leader. So Udonis Haslem was named the Heat's lone captain. In fact, in his first five...
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The Big Lead (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
... by Wade, Bosh and LeBron, and Kobe even mixed in a triple. On a beach chair somewhere in Miami, Pat Riley is wondering, “should I come back and take credit for how good we’re going to be this season'” Beasley, Marion and Wade, if they can get role players to make three’s, rebound and defend, could make some real noise in the East.
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Miami Heat (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
... gets, it might be worth considering how the Heat has taken the long view to its offseasons since Pat Riley's 1995 arrival.
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American Spectator (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
I used to know a writer named Mignon McCarthy, who co-authored Kareem Abdul Jabbar's second autobiography, Kareem. On that assignment, she spent two and a half months with the Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s: the Magic Lakers, the Lakers of Pat Riley and two successive world championships. Laker forward James Worthy was a regular guy. The year he signed with the team, I stood in a grocery line...
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Miami Heat (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... Clippers. A year ago, when O'Neal asked the Heat to offer a few guaranteed bucks to Brian Chase, Pat Riley acquiesced. This time, when a proven player was requested, the Suns apparently saw it was Shaq on the caller ID and allowed the message to go to voice mail.
For those who envision recent free-agent addition...
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Miami Heat (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
It felt like an emperor-has-no-clothes moment. It was back in July, at the start of summer league, when Heat President Pat Riley addressed his team's offseason needs while seated at the scorers' table at the Orlando Magic's practice facility. Depth,...
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The Wages of Wins Journal (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
It took awhile, but I have finally unpacked most of my books in my new office at Southern Utah. Although most of my library consists of books on the topic of economics (not a surprise), I do have a couple of shelves devoted to sports (also not a surprise). And on these shelves is The Winner Within: A Life Plan for Team Players. The author of this book - published in the early 1990s - is Pat Riley....
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The FanHouse - Miami Heat (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Filed under: Heat , NBA Draft , Miami As we count down to the moment when, apparently , Pat Riley snubs the guy who just put up the greatest college season in two decades ... as a freshman , said "bad seed" -- Michael Beasley -- unleashes a torrent of philosophy on the assembled media in NYC. From the Miami Herald 's Sarah Rothschild and/or Michael Wallace : On whether he needs to change and what...
