Pat never went out there. There was no communication—no texts, no phone calls, no face-to-face meetings—until January 1, when the Heat brought Jimmy into the office.
The tension between Butler and team president Pat Riley began in the offseason. At that time, Riley publicly told Butler to “keep your mouth shut.” This led Butler to express his desire for a ...
If Pat Riley is going to successfully emerge from the mess he and his team find themselves in, the Miami Heat president will have to take the most difficult advice of his career: His own. For at least the third time in just over a decade,