Pat Riley: " No More Smiling Faces With Hidden Agendas."

[MikelArteta]

Lebron was telling theheat to draft Shabazz, avoided all of riley's calls and emails, and avoided him at Wade's wedding. Lebron acted like a passive aggressive coward. Riley is old school; you dont let shyt slide like that.

traits of fatherlessness

 

[Danny Up]

Bron was playing chess.

He knew what he was doing, and he purposely lead them on to sabotage their squad so they couldn't reload quicker. Riley was making moves thinking he was putting pieces around Lebron. There were other FAs available that they could have went after immediately if they knew Bron wasn't coming back.

Imagine if Bron gives them the heads up and Riley switches gears and goes after Lowry and Pau etc... instead, they have complimentary pieces for a main piece that's no longer there. They still came up with that Dragic deal midseason tho.

EDIT: Bron says, Napier's his fav PG in the draft, the Heat draft him and Bron picks up his shyt and leaves, lol

Here's the thing Riles told LeBron to suck his dikk, but why would he draft Mapier to appease LeBron when all he had to do was let LeBron's flunkies run free?

 

[Danie84]

Riles spittin The Undisputed Truth

 

[Trip]

Here's the thing Riles told LeBron to suck his dikk, but why would he draft Mapier to appease LeBron when all he had to do was let LeBron's flunkies run free?

meh at the end of the day I think there has to be a clear chain of command within a franchise for it to have sustained success. Lebron doesnt want that...so we'll see what happens I guess. If he wins a title in Cleveland Riley's critiques wont matter.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

meh at the end of the day I think there has to be a clear chain of command within a franchise for it to have sustained success. Lebron doesnt want that...so we'll see what happens I guess. If he wins a title in Cleveland Riley's critiques wont matter.

Teams that are so insecure that they live in fear of appeasing their star player aren't the type of well structured organizations that win titles. Same way an army does lead a successful campaign of all its heads are worrying about getting theirs as opposed to getting it done right. You're dead on about that chain of command stuff. If James is prioritizing his high school clique getting perks over all that other stuff and worrying about being popular in the region, he lost already. Not even as a heat fan, but just as a sports fan, that's why I think it was the wrong move going there. It'd feed into his worst habits in my opinion.

 

[Trip]

Teams that are so insecure that they live in fear of appeasing their star player aren't the type of well structured organizations that win titles. Same way an army does lead a successful campaign of all its heads are worrying about getting theirs as opposed to getting it done right. You're dead on about that chain of command stuff. If James is prioritizing his high school clique getting perks over all that other stuff and worrying about being popular in the region, he lost already. Not even as a heat fan, but just as a sports fan, that's why I think it was the wrong move going there. It'd feed into his worst habits in my opinion.

I agree

 

[FTBS]

Teams that are so insecure that they live in fear of appeasing their star player aren't the type of well structured organizations that win titles. Same way an army does lead a successful campaign of all its heads are worrying about getting theirs as opposed to getting it done right. You're dead on about that chain of command stuff. If James is prioritizing his high school clique getting perks over all that other stuff and worrying about being popular in the region, he lost already. Not even as a heat fan, but just as a sports fan, that's why I think it was the wrong move going there. It'd feed into his worst habits in my opinion.

You really think this was of higher priority than the quality of the team and room for development or growth in the near future (with him on the roster)? If he had 08 D. Wade and thusly 3 straight rings there is no way he leaves MIA. He had to know that he wouldn't have free reign when he went down there and he still went.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

You really think this was of higher priority than the quality of the team and room for development or growth in the near future (with him on the roster)? If he had 08 D. Wade and thusly 3 straight rings there is no way he leaves MIA. He had to know that he wouldn't have free reign when he went down there and he still went.

I doubt he realized this. Tried to get spo fired early and spent all 4 years talking about how he didn't like being booed and having fans cheer him on the road was nice before joining the heat. Sounds like someone who is prioritizing the wrong things.

 

[FTBS]

I doubt he realized this. Tried to get spo fired early and spent all 4 years talking about how he didn't like being booed and having fans cheer him on the road was nice before joining the heat. Sounds like someone who is prioritizing the wrong things.

All that said...

You really think this was of higher priority than the quality of the team and room for development or growth in the near future (with him on the roster)? If he had 08 D. Wade and thusly 3 straight rings there is no way he leaves MIA. He had to know that he wouldn't have free reign when he went down there and he still went.

 

[GoldenGlove]

That ain't playing chess. That's simply bytchmade. There's a reason nobody respects a mole.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Disappointed. Grown men shouldn't act like females. If anything I'm surprised we got a few years of grown man behavior out of the guy.

 

[threattonature]

While I always felt Lebron got off easy due to the whole "Going home" narrative, Riley is the last one to complain. He's done his fair share of dirt and on this occasion the player played the game better than him. Got to tip your hat to Lebron on that and keep it moving.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

He treated Bron like a son, nikka lied to his face and you think an OG gon let that slide?
He ain't crying about it, he's warning nikkas he coming for that neck, no homo.

Riley and Bron rarely spoke the last year there. Riley fairly or unfairly didnt show love to LeBron's crew after leading 2 championship teams and 4 finals appearances.

Riley played his cards wrong and called out the one guy who showed up night in and night out (best playmaker, scorer, rebounder, perimeter defender, etc).

It is what it is. Riley can feel disrespected. LeBron can choose not to give a fukk. Riley wasnt the reason LeBron was in Miami. Wade was.

 

[KingMalik]

It was all good when he did the same thing to go to Miami though. Riley acting like a scorned ex

I really don't understand this saying.

It's like you think this somehow disqualifies Lebron from still being a bytch nikka.

So if your girl cheat on you, then cheat on the nikka she cheated with with another nikka, is your girl somehow not a dirty slut anymore? You just gonna be like "it was all good when she did the same thing with you though"....nah. she still a slut. Lebron still a coward. 30 years old scared to talk to people straight up.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

I always get a kick out of brehs calling players hoes for not telling their boss(former boss) their every move.

Especially when they are a free agent.

Athletes get cut everyday, get asked to make paycuts everyday, get traded everyday, etc etc

All while execs are doing shyt behind the scenes long before telling them. We've heard more than a few stories about athletes finding out on ESPN that they've been cut or traded.

Nikkas talk that loyalty shyt like it exists in sports.