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After all, the Spurs were in full control on the road to a title the previous year when the Heat swung the tide in their favor to pull victory from the jaws of defeat.

For most objective observers, this was not an upset. The Heat got their act together through the rest of the regular season and went on to edge the Dallas Mavericks to win their first NBA title and Riley’s fifth championship as a coach.Ī couple years later, Riley again returned to the front office as General Manager due to health concerns and was able to execute moves which added stars LeBron James and Chris Bosh to the Heat, who with Wade, completed the ‘big three’ triumvirate nucleus of a team that won two consecutive titles.Ī few weeks ago, the San Antonio Spurs handily trounced that big three led team to win their 5th NBA Championship, derailing the Heat’s attempts to achieve a holy three-peat grail. There was wide speculation as to Riley’s true motives for returning to the side-lines, but the unofficial explanation was that the Heat started the season performing lacklusterly, having an 11-10 record when Riley took over the locker room. Two years later and about quarter ways through the season, Riley resumed head coaching the Heat who were poised to make a run for the title with a young, surging Dwyane Wade and a seasoned, yet still effective, Shaquille O’Neal. In 2003, Riley made the decision to step down as Heat head coach to focus more on his duties as General Manager/President, promoting one of his long-time assistants to take over the head coaching role. Riley joined the NBA’s Miami Heat in the dual role as Head Coach and team President in 1995 after stellar coaching tenures with the Los Angeles Lakers, where he built his reputation by winning multiple championships, and then with the New York Knicks.

At this point, it’s unclear what the fate of most Wagner fighters will be or what role Prigozhin will fill in the future.Pat Riley is considered one of the most successful basketball coaches in history, but you can’t help but feel sorry for him with what has transpired over the last week. In a speech delivered on June 26, Putin vowed to uphold the commitment he made to Wagner fighters to end the mutiny, which involved three options: sign contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry, go to Belarus, or go home to their families. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko confirmed on June 27 that Prigozhin traveled to Belarus but recently said the mercenary chief was in Russia. When the mutiny first ended, according to media reports, Prigozhin agreed to live in exile in Belarus in exchange for having charges against him dropped. “The commanders themselves shared their version of what happened, they emphasized that they are staunch supporters and soldiers of the head of state and the supreme commander-in-chief, and also said that they are ready to continue fighting for the Fatherland,” he said. Peskov said that Putin listened to explanations from the Wagner commanders and “offered them further options for employment and further use in combat.” Peskov said he couldn’t share much detail about the meeting but added that Prigozhin and other Wagner commanders pledged their loyalty to Russia. “The meeting took place in the Kremlin on June 29 and lasted for nearly three hours.” “ invited 35 people - all the squad commanders and the leadership of the company, including Prigozhin,” Peskov said, according to TASS. The talks were held just a few days after Prigozhin’s 24-hour rebellion, which started on June 23 and ended on June 24. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the meeting took place on June 29 at the Kremlin and lasted three hours. A Kremlin spokesman said Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin after his short-lived mutiny.