Pat Riley defends telling Jimmy Butler ‘shut your mouth’
"I don’t think what I said last year really was relevant."
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Stephen A. Smith says it’s time for Pat Riley to step aside: ‘He’s not that guy anymore’
"Pat Riley, it's time."
Dan Le Batard criticizes leak Pat Riley cried during Jimmy Butler meeting: ‘That is so weak’
"It's so uniquely male and so uniquely repressed and stupid, that it's totally unsurprising to see it used to slap Pat Riley across the face."
NFL agrees deal with Pat Riley for ‘three-peat’ if Chiefs win Super Bowl
Pat Riley's long trademarked 'three-peat' can be used by the NFL if the Kansas City Chiefs win their third straight Super Bowl.
Dan Le Batard: Heat would suspend Jimmy Butler ‘if he hiccups wrong’
"The rules have all changed now to 'whatever it is we need to do to suspend him.'"
Pat Riley presciently addressed Jimmy Butler situation in weeks-old interview
"I understand this generation of players and how they want to go about living their life is different."
Charles Barkley: End of Jimmy Butler era in Miami ‘one of the worst-kept secrets in the world’
"This relationship is over."
Jimmy Butler indicates he wants out of Miami in press conference: ‘I want to get my joy back’
"I want to see me get my joy back from playing basketball. Wherever that may be."
Pat Riley issues statement declaring Miami Heat will not trade Jimmy Butler: ‘This speculation has become a distraction’
"We will make it clear. We are not trading Jimmy Butler."
Pat Riley tells Jimmy Butler ‘Keep your mouth shut.’
"Is that Jimmy trolling, or is that Jimmy serious?"
Chris Russo calls being dressed down at press conferences a ‘badge of honor’ for reporters
"I loved to ask those questions in those press conferences in those days. Open up my big fat mouth."
Pat Riley challenged media to a push-up contest, and SportsCenter anchor Kevin Negandhi eagerly accepted
"You wanna go to the mat, let's go."
‘Winning Time’ spotlights one of sports’ greatest what-ifs: what if Jack McKinney hadn’t had a bike accident?
Jack McKinney might have become Pat Riley if not for a bike accident.
Pat Riley fined for tampering for “new key” comments on LeBron to Dan Le Batard, as he predicted he would be
"I wish him nothing but the best, and if he ever did want to come back, I'll put a new shiny key under that mat. I can't...I just got...this will get me fined for tampering." It sure did.
Ranking the biggest casting choices for HBO’s Los Angeles Lakers series
Bo Burnham as Larry Bird is kind of a head-scratcher.
Adrien Brody cast as Pat Riley in HBO’s “Showtime” era Los Angeles Lakers series
An Academy Award winner had to play the iconic coach, right?