3. New Chicago Bulls guard Dwyane Wade acknowledged his strained relationship with Pat Riley on Saturday, three days after ending his 13-year stint with the Miami Heat.
“It’s going to be a lot of stuff said about me and Pat. First of all, I love Pat. He has a job to do. He has a different hat to wear,” Wade told reporters at his youth basketball camp in downtown Miami. “That hat sometimes is not to be my best friend. That hat is to be the president of the organization and to be a businessman, and that sucks.
“You love each other, but the business side comes out, and you have to deal with it.”
Wade said he understood the difficult position Riley is sometimes placed in as the team’s president.
“I’m not saying we’ve hugged and cried and shared tears at this moment,” Wade said, “but I love Pat and will always love Pat. And I know he feels the say way about me.”
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“He’s a tough cookie,” Wade said of Riley. “I’ve grown into being a tough one as well. Yeah, we can butt heads at times. I have nothing but the utmost respect and admiration for what he’s been able to do in this game of basketball. I’ve only got 13 years under my belt. He’s got 13 years times 10 under his belt.”
- Wade: Pat Riley’s job not to be my best friend, FreeWinningPicks.com, July 9, 2016.
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