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Pat Riley opens up on Olynyk, Waiters, McRoberts, Heat outlook

Related Topics: Kelly Olynyk, Pat Riley

In his annual summer media briefing, Miami Heat President Pat Riley spoke Monday in an intimate setting in his office at AmericanAirlines Arena with the team’s beat writers.

On the start of the Heat’s offseason approach, “The pursuit of Gordon [Hayward] was a no-brainer. We felt the need to pursue that.”

On returning his 2016-17 core, “We were all geeked, happy, really about the team that we put together.”

On how it came together, “As soon as we found that Gordon was not going to be with us, we moved very quickly on all of them.