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I'll tell you what is setting things on fire.

Is this new book in which it talks about Pat Riley, quotes Pat Riley,

talking about LeBron James.

There's excerpts from a, from a new book that I think are pretty telling.

And it does, by the way, kind of cast a little bit of light into the workings of,

it does cast a little bit of the workings of um uh it does cast a little bit the workings of maverick carter so i think

this is it's really fun really fascinating really fascinating all right so again upcoming book

pat riley's quoted in it and um he also admits that he took, he took LeBron James's exit really, really personally.

And he also thought that, you know, quite frankly, LeBron did the right thing in leaving.

So there's some fascinating quotes there.

But maybe the most interesting quotes.

And Ian Thompson wrote the book.

It's called The Soul of Basketball.

In it, Pat Riley says that LeBron could have collected five or six championships,

had the team stayed intact.

He said, quote, I had two or three days of tremendous anger.

I was absolutely livid, which I expressed to myself and my closest friends.

My beautiful plan all of a sudden came crashing down, a team that in 10 years could have

won five or six championships, but I get it.

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