Tag: Pat Riley
Shaq's beef with Stan Van Gundy exploded when his former coach accused him of flopping
Pat Riley was the GM who brought Shaquille O'Neal to Miami, and the coach who led Shaq's Heat to a title, but ... not immediately. For a moment there, young Stan Van Gundy was Shaq's coach. It didn't end well, and a few years after their divorce, a seemin...
Patrick Ewing never won an NBA championship. Here's what left him empty-handed.
This one stings. A surface-level summary of 1990s NBA history is basically: “Michael Jordan won the championships he was around to win, and Hakeem Olajuwon got the other ones in the middle.” Part of the reason the series Untitled exists is to better expla...
Moment Bill Laimbeer Congratulates Pat Riley and the Knicks after Being Eliminated '"Beat them,'" Bill Laimbeer said. '"Play them the way you played us."
May 3, 1992 - '"Beat them,'" Bill Laimbeer said. '"Play them the way you played us."A year removed from the infamous decision to bypass the handshake line with the Chicago Bulls following Michael Jordan's comments prior to their series finale (“The Piston...
