A Flashback To Pat Riley’s Demands To Join the Miami Heat Organization

Sports Illustrated’s Chris Herring was recently on Twitter Spaces in The ReWind Space and talked about his New York Times Best Selling book, Blood in the Garden.

During the conversation, Herring talked about the demands that Heat team president Pat Riley wanted to join the Heat organization in 1995.

“He [Pat Riley] fought tooth and nail for everything down to a $300 per day payment per diem from the Heat,” Herring said. “When he laid out a 14-point memo of what he wanted from the Miami Heat because he was trying to get to Miami. He literally asked for 10 percent ownership stake immediately, and another 10 percent to be paid overtime. He asked for a loan to cover the interest payments they would have for the ownership stake and then on top of all that, he wanted Miami to buy his home in New York, so he would not be on the hook for that, and he wanted a limo.”