Heat president Pat Riley, during his always fascinating annual postseason news conference, wasn’t specifically asked to defend doling out more than $190 million in long-term commitments last summer to Dion Waiters, James Johnson, Josh Richardson and Kelly Olynyk — on top of the $50 million to Tyler Johnson and the $98 million to Hassan Whiteside the previous summer.
But Riley did anyway.
“All of our guys that we paid last year — and everybody talks about how much money was have committed to them — the average salary is $8 [million] to $9 million,” Riley said, which is true if he’s talking about last season only and factoring in the $6.