Funny...karma is that female dog!!
Riley has coached and/or played for 3 the teams that I have disliked the most (although the Bad-Boy Pistons would be #4) in Celtic history.
Now he gets a taste of his own medicine.
From the Sun Sentinel via the RealGM wiretap:
http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/234481/Riley-LeBron-Gave-No-Response-To-Texts-Emails-In-Free-AgencySome interesting snippets:
Pat Riley never dissuaded from the belief that LeBron James would return to the Miami Heat in free agency, even when the two met in Las Vegas before James announced his decision to join the Cleveland Cavaliers.
''I went into it with the thought and the notion that he was coming back," Riley said, "and I was selling that to players, I believed that firmly, so I was selling that to players. And that's the only way I went into it. I let him know that. He never said to me, 'No, don't do that.' ''
Sounds like Riley doing damage control to the free agents he signed promising James would be there.
And this, implying that he was misled even when he says he wasn't:
"I don't think I was misled. But I don't think I was encouraged either.
And here sounding like a jilted lover:
Riley said he did not hear from James during the free agent process.
"I sent him a lot of emails and texts," Riley said. "I was communicating a lot with him. No response."
How's that one way communication feel, Pat? A lot like Gilbert (who is no shining star either) and the Cav fans felt back then.
And just to cement the notion that Riley feels that he was misled by James:
"There wasn't anything in that meeting that told me that wasn't going to happen," Riley said of the anticipated return by James.
Live by the sword (Fear the Sword), die by the sword.
Maybe you would have had a bigger hint if James, when you lost in the Finals, disdainfully ripped off his Heat jersey walking down the tunnel, like he did in Cleveland, huh Riley?