For much of this summer, the Miami Heat, coming off their second trip to the c Finals in four seasons, thought they were going to end up landing Damian Lillard via trade.
But in the end, the Portland Trail Blazers sent him to the Milwaukee Bucks, one of the Heat’s biggest competitors in the Eastern Conference.
To add insult to injury, veteran guard Jrue Holiday, whom the Bucks traded to Portland to get Lillard, was then traded to the Boston Celtics, a big rival of the Heat.
Thus, Miami heads into the 2023-24 season somewhat crestfallen, as they don’t appear to have a path to get back to the championship series
Riley, 78, is one of the game’s biggest legends, and he has as much experience working with superstars as anyone in any sport.
He played with Jerry West and Wilt Chamberlain on that 1972 Los Angeles Lakers team that won 33 games in a row and captured the NBA title, and he later coached them to five world championships, four as their head coach, during the 1980s when he had Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at his side.
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