With a chance to three-peat next season, Miami Heat president Pat Riley wants to bring back the championship cast for an encore in 2013-14. Speaking at a news conference Wednesday that lasted almost 45 minutes, Riley indicated that he does not plan on breaking up the Heat's core ahead of their bid to win a third straight title, despite the harsh luxury tax penalties the team faces in 2013-14. "We hope to bring all of our guys back," Riley said. Would he have changed his mind if the Heat lost Game 6 or Game 7 to the San Antonio Spurs? When asked that question, Riley contemplated for several seconds before delivering his answer. "Probably," Riley said. "The whole set of dynamics would have been an absolute negative flood of energy. But it didn't happen. Would we have approached it differently? We probably would have been thinking differently. But I don't even want to think about that." When the yellow ropes came out in the final minutes of Game 6, Riley said he hoped for a miracle and received the basketball equivalent when Ray Allen hit a game-tying 3-pointer with 5.2 seconds left to force overtime. Source: ESPN
