Obviously, it was a bitter divorce between Dwyane Wade and the Miami Heat.
However, Heat team President Pat Riley is taking steps to try and heal those wounds. Riley said Monday, Media Day for most teams around the NBA, that he composed a very heartfelt email message for Dwyane Wade and that it’s currently in his “save drafts” folder.
Riley said the electronic missive will soon be on its belated way to D. Wade, the last of the big three to leave Miami.
“I believe the day after Dwyane left, I expressed my emotions. And I have finished it,” Riley said of his email (transcript Sun Sentinel).
“I really have finished it. I don’t know if you could put these two words together — metaphoric, hyperbole — he’s going to have to read through the lines, but he’ll get the point at the end. I have it in my save drafts. So, I’ve just got to hit send, that’s all. I will.”
It’s no secret that Wade didn’t care for how he was being treated in Miami, and when he knew that it wasn’t going to work out, he approached his hometown team about a potential move. Reportedly he also contacted the Denver Nuggets, along with a third team. Pat Riley again reiterated that he wasn’t a part of the failed talks with the superstar wing.
It was Heat Owner Mickey Arison who was involved in negotiations with Wade, not Riley.
“But I do understand what you’re saying, what somebody blurted out about his side that, ‘not even a call.’ And I don’t think a lot of people understand that I wasn’t involved in those negotiations at all for two years,”
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