It’s not clear who will replace Magic Johnson as president of basketball operations for the Los Angeles Lakers in the wake of Johnson’s surprise resignation last week, but we now know one person who it won’t be: Former Lakers coach Pat Riley.
At the end his end-of-season press conference with the Miami Heat, Riley said he didn’t want to talk extensively about the Lakers’ job, but he made it clear he has no interest in leaving South Beach for South Bay (via Shandel Richardson of The Athletic):
“I mean, I’m not going to comment on another team’s misfortune while they’re going through some adversity right now,” Riley said at his annual end-of-the-season press conference at AmericanAirlines Arena.