SI.com · Sep 14, 2020
Goran Dragic’s Heat Career Comes Full Circle
Goran Dragic still vividly remembers his first meeting with Pat Riley.
Then an All-NBA Third Team guard coming off a 48-win season in Phoenix, Dragic was acquired by the Heat in February 2015 as a third star to pair with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. Riley, as he’s seemingly done countless times, was sitting down with Dragic in his office before hitting him with his signature move: He threw his rings on the table.
“When you have a meeting with Pat, you’re already all eyes and ears. Then he goes into his drawer and pulls out his championship rings,” Dragic says, his voice sounding like his eyes are getting wider. “He tells me to take one, and I can have it for a little while until I get my own.”