I'd like to do. Pat Riley is in his 19th season as an NBA coach, his sixth with the Miami Heat, in an NBA career that started as a player in 1967. This week the Heat heads west to meet the league's best teams, the Trail Blazers and the Lakers, in a stretch of seven road games out of its next eight. Once it would be a crucial time for a Riley team, a time of desperation and motivational ploys, with winning expected. This time Riley says he might see a movie.
Mediocrity can bring perspective.
You get to a point where you think about all the things you've missed and you lament. My wife's been waiting 30 years for me to come home. OK, it's not a completely touchy-feely Pat Riley. He was nitpicking as soon as I got here. But there has been more nit and less pick.