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The man behind the curtain of The Greatest Show on Hardwood stepped out to discuss his team’s first season together, the one that began with an extravagant celebration and ended with bitter disappointment.
Heat president Pat Riley addressed everything from his coaching future, or lack thereof, to the improvements LeBron James needs to make to help his game evolve.
To start from the beginning, though, Riley said he would have done away with the concert-style celebration for the signings of James and Chris Bosh and the re-signing of Dwyane Wade last July.
Riley, who rarely addressed the media throughout the season that ended with a six-game Finals loss to the Dallas Mavericks, said the team already had plans to celebrate with Heat fans after learning that Bosh and James were coming to Miami.
“Can you imagine when LeBron said, ‘I’m coming?’ ” Riley said. “So, did we make mistakes along the way? Yes, probably. It probably put more pressure on them. Would they have liked to take back some of the words over the course of the season? Yes, but we can’t. We don’t have any regrets over it.

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