Pat Riley has revealed that he's going to send Dwyane Wade a carefully crafted, long email. Probably, almost the same as the things that Wade have said about Riley last week: how he will always love him and how being a businessman can be tough.
But during Riley's 50-minute session with reporters Saturday afternoon at AmericanAirlines Arena, the letter to Wade is not yet finished.
"If I saw him right now, I really believe it would be a warm embrace," Riley said. "I don't have any of those feelings, any of those negative feelings for him at all."
Riley has not spoken to Wade since the 12-time All-Star left the Miami Heat on July 6 with his decision to return home to Chicago.
There haven't many times in Riley's career when he has put his heart and mind to something and lost. His nine championship rings prove that. But this offseason, he and the Heat lost big.
Riley said it it will be "a tough summer" for him and that he had a "great regret" for not keeping Wade in a Heat uniform. He would have done anything to keep Wade.
Still, Riley said that Wade's decision "was not about money."
"This was about something else, I more than he," Riley said. "I should have tried to do everything that I could have."
This summer, Riley made sure to retain Hassan Whiteside first with a four-year, $98 million deal and then went for Kevin Durant before the Heat went for Wade. By then, though, the damage had apparently already been done.
"After LeBron James left, I was trying to find a way to get him another guy to help not only to win, but to help him win in a way that he would be proud when he moved on and retired It wasn't just getting another guy for him. It was to maximize our ability to win."
"If there was anything I could have done better, I would have done it. But now, there's no do-overs in this. I wish him the best."
The 11-time All-Star Chris Bosh, who was lost for the second season in a row after having blood clots in his leg, is expected to return to the court this fall. But according to Riley, the situation still remains fluid, and there likely will not be any more clarity on Bosh's future until August or September.
Source: Miami Herald
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