Why Pat Riley, Miami Heat are focused on 2027
Five On The Floor: Miami Heat/NBA
Five Reasons Sports Network
4.6 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In another episode following the Pat Riley press conference, Ethan Skolnick and Greg Sylvander get into the reasons why the Heat president and the organization seem so focused on 2027 -- and how it affects decisions this offseason.
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| 1:39.8 | All right, welcome back to Five Reason Sports. Here's today's floor plan. |
| 1:42.4 | I'm Ethan Scholing and follow me at Ethan J. Schollinger. |
| 1:44.1 | And at Five Reason Sports at Greg Slander. five reasons of sports at Greg Slavander. |
| 2:03.8 | You can follow him at Greg Slavander. And no, we are not done with the Pat Riley wrapups. Did one with yes, we did one yesterday at the arena with Brady Hawk. You can follow him at Brady Hawk 305. we went through our five quick takes off a 63, 64 minute presser, much longer than Pat has gone in recent years. The first 11 minutes of it was monologue. |
| 2:10.7 | I can say that you and I predicted that, right? Yeah. Actually, we predicted a lot this year, |
| 2:17.1 | I think. We had a good year, right? It was kind of funny predicted a lot this year, I think. |
| 2:17.8 | We had a good year, right? |
| 2:18.8 | It was kind of funny. |
| 2:19.8 | A lot of people on Twitter said basically that they thought that they, that Pat listened to |
| 2:25.7 | our show before he queued up his monologue for the, for the presser. |
| 2:31.7 | That is not true, y'all. |
| 2:33.1 | Pat is not listening to us us he has his monologue prepared |
| 2:36.2 | no there there are others in the building who do oh for sure but not pat not himself pat |
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