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MOURNING'S WARM, MIAMI'S HOT

By Dan Le Batard

Friday, February 15, 2008

Miami Heat coach Pat Riley, who is paid $45,000 for motivational speeches, has used some of his best stuff on Alonzo Mourning—not to get him up, but rather to bring him down. Quoting everyone from Aristotle to Jerry Garcia, even borrowing anecdotes from Chinese military books, riley has tried unsuccessfully the last two years to lower his volatile center's volume. He seems to have finally reached his $112 million man, though by using dollars to make sense. "If you were a stock, I wouldn't ...

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