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An albatross for Republicans

“There were things we would probably, if we had a chance to really think about it, and do it over again, may have done it a little bit differently,” Riley said in his annual state-of-the-team postseason media session.

But the Miami Heat president said the whole issue also became way overblown.

Asked Tuesday to reflect on that high-volume moment, Riley tried to offer perspective.

“The day that somebody asks my daughter to marry him, she’s going to have a bachelorette party,” he related. “I hope it’s not in Vegas with those guys from ‘Hangover.’ ”

He paused, laughed.

“So you always have a pre-celebration to the celebration, right?” he said.

“So, listen, we were so geeked about Dwyane and Chris, the party was planned for those two guys, a couple of days before.

“Can you imagine when LeBron said, ‘I’m coming.’? ”

Big simply got bigger, perhaps big-top, some would contend.

“So, did we make mistakes along the way? Yes, probably,” Riley said. “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.”

Instead, Riley said it is time to move forward, in the wake of the Heat falling to the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals.

“We don’t any regrets over it,” he said. “We’re going to leave that behind us and, yeah, there were things we would probably, if we had a chance to really think about it, and do it over again, may have done it a little bit differently.