Pat Riley

No, no.

I mean, Jack McMahon, you know, Bill Sharman, Pete Newell, Jerry West, Dave Chakets, you know, all the executives that I worked with, I learned a lot from them, especially Jerry.

and working for him as a coach all those years in L.A.

And so when I came to Miami and Mickey said that he was going to hire, and he hired the president and head coach of the Miami Heat, I immediately turned all the executive stuff over to, at that time, it was Dave Wohl and it was Chris Wallace, and then Randy Fun came in and Andy Ellsberg, and I coached.

I was never in the executive office as a basketball operation.

I was done with the coaches.

And at that time, it was Stan Van Gundy, Scotty Robertson, and Bob McAdoo, and me, and Ron Culp, and Jay Sable, and 12 players.

That's all we had.

I kept that tight.

That group was tight.

And and I kept, you know, sort of an insulated fabric around that group.

And it was important to me.

So the executive part of it in building the franchise, I don't care who you are as an executive.

I had the power.

I never used it.

I didn't want to use it.

But I had the power.

Basically, the players thought I had the power and I could coach.

And that's the only thing that I could bring to this team is winning.

I mean, I have to take it from the practice court to the old arena, which I love playing that old arena.