Pat Riley
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982 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 20 Jul
Pat Riley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And but I wasn't satisfied because I knew we had a team that year, those years that was championship type team.
And so for whatever reason, why we didn't get there, I took it very personal and they became.
some of the darkest years for me at the end of the seasons, you know, after we had lost by a point here or a point there in the finals against New York.
It was they were a great team, too, and very competitive series, always going to the ultimate game and losing.
And and it's not fun.
You know, it's just it just takes you to a place of darkness.
And so
When I talked about starvation with the Lakers, I was starving for an opportunity to do something to find another path.
And this was another form of starving to take this franchise that I'm not saying that it was inept.
It was not inept.
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.
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