Pat Riley

It just was the team that didn't get anywhere.

And so I felt very, very bad about those endings.

But if you look back on them, they were the things that started the fan base here in Miami.

I don't know either.

I mean, the first person who saw me walk out of the locker room was Tim Donovan.

He's always standing right there by the stairwell.

This is American Airlines Arena.

And we had just lost the first year the arena opened and we had lost in the seventh game by a point.

And.

And it was the first time that I really couldn't talk to my players.

You know, I mean, for a while I needed to I need a little time.

And so I went into my office.

I don't believe in postgame meetings with your coaches like immediately.

you know, cause I got to take care of myself.

And so the other coaches went to the video room, we had desks in there and they waited.

And I just, I just, I was in that, that office and it all just came down, you know, I don't know, it could have been, you know, everything culminating from, you know, when I was raised, you know, with my father, what went on in LA or at the end, what went on at the end in New York.

And,

And here I am again, losing, you know, failing.

And and it's just I was overwhelmed.

So, yeah, I just I cracked, you know, at that time.