Pat Riley read the meeting room and his pitchee as wrong as possible in his last-ditch effort to kiss-and-make up with Jimmy. Riles tried to connect on an emotional, personal level with his talisman by,
-bringing up his own father's death 55 years ago as simpatico with Jimmy's loss one year ago, producing the eye leakage.
-giving "unsolicited and unwanted" parenting advice to Jimmy.
This per "multiple league sources" to The Athletic, confirmed by Jimmy's camp and by 601 Biscayne saving the parental advice. Jimmy left the two-hour sitdown "bewildered by his 79-year-old boss' behavior"
and determined that the last thing Riley would see of him was assholes and elbows as he high-tailed away from Miami. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/43735946/inside-messy-jimmy-butler-saga-how-all-came-kevin-durant-golden-state-warriors-phoenix-suns-miami-heat
