I don’t know why but I read this in Al Pacino’s voice

“I’m not going to give LeBron back those cookies.”

RIP heat fans

Then go after Giannis. The core they have right now does not have a high ceiling.

Are they going to pay both Norm and Herro?

This core is a mid 40s win ceiling.

Tanking barely ever even works. He takes the right approach imo. 

Heat fans in shambles…

He unironically pulled this

Holy shit how is this being received so negatively? The Heat have been one of the best teams to cheer for in the past two decades. They have consistently overperformed and re-tooled incredibly well. I understand they may have a tough run recently but that’s professional sports. They have multiple finals appearances in the last few years alone. They are easily in the top 5 most fun teams to be a fan of in the NBA, and a mentality like this is why

Any Heat fan who wants him to retire just doesn’t know ball lol.

Enjoy that Heat fans

Music to my ears

Respect!

I see them being a serious finals contender next year…

They just need Bam to averaged 83 points a game

live long enough to become the villain

“it would take a SWAT team to remove me from this office, maybe not even that”

Gotta agree, fuck tanking

Lol all ya’ll bitch about teams tankin blatantly then when a GM comes out and says I’m not tanking or trying to lose than it’s welp theyre mid forever. Pick a fucking side instead of always bitching

Gotta respect it.

Leave it to Redditors to think they know basketball better than a dude who has spent 50+ years of his life in the NBA and has accumulated 9 championships across his roles as a player, coach, and executive. He continues to show everyone that regardless of how bad his team may be in a given year, you can never fully count them out because they always play to win, and because he refuses to be a loser even when there are advantages to it. I’d be thrilled to have Riley as my team’s GM.

…I’m not going to win

What’s the definition of insanity again?

There’s a difference between trying to tank and doing a fire sale to rebuild with stock piling draft picks

no surprise here

The problem isn’t that he operates in this space, it’s that more teams don’t. If you think the nba is trash now just wait until all the Donduns arrive and think of teams as something where costs and salaries must be minimized to maximize profits in order to justify such a large purchase.

You hear that Adam Silver? That’s a guy that deserves the number one pick. You know what you have to do Adam.

I wish we were as good as the Heat 😔😔😔 

Me just reading this shit and smiling knowing how fucking mad its gotta make Miami fans

I immediately thought of Ric Flair’s promo when I read this

Bruh we’ve had one top ten pick in 20 years and even that guy couldn’t develop cuz we got LeBron 2 years later and needed to win immediately. Maybe Nico can join a team with a superstar and give us a call.

Watch the Heat win the Draft Lottery and the Wizards drop to 4

Normalize not tanking

Just need to wait for the next disgruntled star poison the well enough for the Heat to sweep in and get him for peanuts.

Heat fans, may God have mercy on your souls

Easy thing to say right before tanking reform. He has backed it up though 

Mid purgatory is the worst place to be for fans . Just good enough to have expectations but just bad enough to never be serious contenders

When Giannis signs here in 2 months everyone will be back to being pro riley

Enjoy your play-in game next year Heat

Mean not sure what anyone expected…if Pat has shown one thing in his long basketball career is that he’s stubborn.

The new lottery odd if approved would be a boon for the Heat.

But at some point there’s goin to have to be a changing of the guard from the FO.

I don’t think he’s be this dogmatic about it if he wasn’t feeling the pressure of the current stagnate feeling around the team.

Chomp chomp

“I’m not going to sleep”

• Pat Riley

Felt like a motivational quote

“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this!” energy from Pat.

this is the NBA front office version of the Conor McGregor, “I’d like to apologize….. to absolutely no one” speech

You can’t GM a NBA team like a stubborn grandpa. This team is in no man’s land. You must fix this lol.

I’m

This is the old people in power piece. Give your job to spolstra and hopefully he built up another coach

I respect that as a Celtics fan. I hope we don’t see Giannis and Bam paired up next year. That’s terrifying.

Bro is really 80 years old. Go retire man.

Pat “Commissar Yarrick” Riley

According to people in this sub this is the best thing ever. You aren’t allowed to tank for a good prospect and you’ll never get better if you don’t so Miami are doing everything right by never being good enough to challenge for the title and never being bad enough to improve

That’s a lot of I amnot going to….

I respect it. Some fans swear tanking is the only way to improve a team like we haven’t seen teams tank for a decade and still be ass

So what’s the plan for improvement? Or is it just tease fans with a star trade and compete for the play ins every season

Sounds like Pat is the typical super old guy still working who has reached the point of “fuck you, I do what I want.”

Sure it worked for the Spurs, Thunder. They have competent front offices though.

I am not saying he can’t do his job, I am just saying that older generations need to know when to make place for new faces in the game. Pat you are 81, when is enough?

Dying breed.

At least the Bulls made it out of the play-in first 😆

Nepotism rearing it’s ugly head.

Miami Heat’s current owner inherited the team from his dad (rich Israeli guy who was cofounder of Norwegian cruise lines before going on his own and founding Carnival cruises.)

Now the grandson is CEO of the Miami Heat.

It’s not about being effective at your job, it’s about the relationships you created and can lean on to keep you at the top.

BTW - Pat Riley is 81 years old.

He’s also not going to try very hard to win. Never took a risk to make a real measurable move.

People on here saying this is some sort of death knell as if the Heat haven’t been the best team in the Eastern conference since ‘10. Even if you shorten the timeline to the ‘20s we go… 2nd? Maybe 3rd? It’s been a rough 2 years, but this core took us to the finals twice and was a shot away from a 3rd. Is it gassed and in need of life? Oh hell yeah. But we’re far from a Bulls like position of middling with no outs.

My man ran LeBron out of town you think he’s gonna stop now lmao

And that’s why they will never win championships until he is gone

“I’m not going to retire. I’m not going to resign. I’m not going to step aside.”

Pat Riley going full villain speech at the end of a sports movie right before the credits roll

“I’m going to wait until we fall ass backwards into another superstar forcing his way here”

So what are you gonna do, big dawg?

to say he is disappointed in this squad for not going farther is a VERY telling sign he no longer knows how good his team needs to be to advance in a meaningful way. I think Spo has been making the FO look way better than they are.

Hes probably resting his laurels on trading Tyler Herro and a 1st for Giannis

What exactly what my 80 year old dad say.

This is what happens when a persona becomes bigger than the program

H E A T C U L T U R E

You da Godfather for a reason!

You’re not trying to tank but you’re not trying to do enough to win

Heat being held hostage.

Love that for them.

Heat won’t go anywhere unless he leaves. Time for a reset.

Business. As. Usual.

“i won’t change my mind, cause i don’t have to. Cause im an American. i won’t change my mind on anything, regardless of the facts that are set out before me. im dug in, and i’ll never change.”