MIAMI — The last time Pat Riley interjected himself into the discussion about an emerging Miami Heat center and utilization by coach Erik Spoelstra, things got sideways.
“How can Spo transform his thinking when it comes to offense and defense or minutes or whatever?” Riley said during his season-ending media session in 2018. “However he uses him, that’s what you do. We go through this almost every year with players. There’s always a disagreement, a change in philosophy or whatever it is.
“There has to be an intervention and I’m going to be the intervener. That’s real.”
