Miami Heat president of basketball operations Pat Riley has long been considered one of the smartest men in the NBA. The slick-haired front office executive was the mastermind behind bringing LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to South Beach, but now he's tasked with doing something even harder.
Keeping them there.
Well, not just convincing each member of the Big Three to remain with the Heat, but also adding pieces to a roster that was exposed by the San Antonio Spurs. Not just building the roster, but doing so without any concrete information about James, Wade and Bosh, none of whom have to take discounted salaries yet again.
As Yahoo Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski tweeted out on Saturday morning, Riley is attempting to pull off something that's never been done before:
"If anyone can pull it off, it's Pat Riley."
But what if no one can? This may well be a summer revolving around an impossible task.
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