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Pat Riley has started to examine if he can keep this current Heat team together when the luxury tax penalties become much stiffer starting in 2013-14.

GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- Mike Woodson has been named the Eastern Conference Coach of the Month, the NBA announced on Thursday. It was the first time a Knicks coach was recognized for the honor since Pat Riley in March 1994. Woodson led the Knicks to...

If the Celtics and Heat play Friday but no one cares, does it count?

Will the NBA's front offices do the right thing and give Heat president Pat Riley the Executive of the Year award?

Basketball Hall of Famer Jerry West talks about the Warriors' resurgence, the criticism of NBA officiating, Pat Riley, the Heat's 27-game winning streak and more. West ESPN NBA analyst Kurt Rambis covers the Knicks' winning streak, Shaquille O'Neal...

The NBA upgraded one of Taj Gibson's fouls on LeBron James to a flagrant, but it wasn't one of the two fouls James complained about after the Chicago Bulls snapped the Miami Heat's win streak March 27 at the United Center.

Let's hope a Celtics-Heat playoff battle isn't wishful thinking.

Nearly 30 years of ill will later, Miami boss Pat Riley just had to tell Danny Ainge to shut it. Peter May details how Boston has always had a way of getting under his skin: One more headline from our friends at the Heat Index: Riley's choice w...

Brian Windhorst: Pat Riley's feud with Danny Ainge is a show of his loyalty to LeBron James

Layne Murdoch Jr./NBAE/Getty ImagesLeBron James drained six 3-pointers over a five-and-a-half minute span in New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS -- Two hours prior to the Miami Heat's tipoff against the New Orleans Hornets, Pat Riley issued a scathing response...

BOSTON -- After Miami Heat team president Pat Riley unloaded on Danny Ainge for his criticism of LeBron James, the Celtics' president of basketball operations responded by saying both sides were right in their opinions. "Danny Ainge needs to shut ...

After nearly 30 years of ill will, Pat Riley just had to tell Danny Ainge to shut it.

Miami Heat team president Pat Riley forcefully responded to criticism of LeBron James from Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge on Friday afternoon, telling Ainge to "shut the f--- up."

Take a shot at writing a cartoon caption. Playbook cartoonist Kurt Snibbe will offer up a blank cartoon each weekday morning, and he will fill in the blank with our favorite reader submission at the end of the business day. So please, by all means...

Pat Riley, when at the helm with the New York Knicks in the 1990s, tracked some very particular stats -- contested shots, rebounding effort, shot deflections, 50-50 balls (rebounds that could go to either team), hustle plays and more -- on slips of p...

With the passing of Dr. Jerry Buss, Kobe Bryant became the organization's last prominent and active link to a storied past