LeBron James had bolted for Cleveland two years earlier, but Pat Riley was determined to chase him.
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LeBron leaving before they expected it shattered the Heat, but they never stopped fighting to meet him at the summit again. That fight led them down some wayward paths, but they did remarkable work extricating themselves. They have a chance at everything again now.
(Zach Lowe ESPN)
Wow, wow, wow. Riles hates LeBron. He wants revenge. That is Riley’s motivation.
Those two paragraphs, one near the beginning, the other the very last in the article, are seperated by an ocean of ink. I noted them but I didn’t connect them. Lowe is deliberately obfuscating a little. The last sentence, if Lowe had written, “They have a chance at him again,” it would have been the focal point of the piece and maybe its lese. Lowe didn’t want that so he grayed it a little. But that is what it is. Pat Riley is coming for LeBron James. That is why Riley is doing this at age 75. Not for one more ring. To get LeBron.
