{"id":254230,"date":"2026-05-01T17:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/254230\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:29:10","slug":"poll-can-pat-riley-make-heat-a-contender-again-vote-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/254230\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Can Pat Riley make Heat a contender again? Vote now"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Heat Heat president Pat Riley, reacts prior to responding to a question during his season-ending press conference at Kaseya Center on Monday, April 27, 2026, in Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com <\/p>\n

I won\u2019t go as far as to say Pat Riley has become a polarizing figure in South Florida (this poll result will speak for itself), but I\u2019d say the past three seasons have raised doubts whether the Miami Heat will become championship contenders under his club presidency.<\/p>\n

In fairness it doesn\u2019t all fall on Riley. Main owner Micky Arison, CEO Nick Arison, general manager\/cap guru Andy Elisburg and coach Erik Spoelstra all have a say in major roster decisions and path forward. But Riley is still the guy out front on that, the guy talking about not tanking, about Bam Adebayo being untouchable in trade talks and so forth.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s your confidence level that Riley, the NBA Hall of Famer now 81, can lead the Heat to an elusive fourth championship or at least contend for one again?<\/p>\n

As always, you may vote as many times as you like or until your fingers ache. Go!<\/p>\n

GREG COTE\u2019S POLL DANCE: Are you confident Pat Riley can make Miami Heat a championship contender again?<\/p>\n

Previous Poll Dance result: Split verdict but some disappointment on Dolphins\u2019 No. 1 draft pick: We asked: \u201cHow do you grade the Dolphins picking Kadyn Proctor 12th overall in NFL Draft?\u201d Very good response, thanks. You said: D\/Disappointing 50%, B\/Good 24%, C\/Fair 16%, and A\/Excellent 10%.<\/p>\n


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Greg Cote is a Miami Herald sports columnist who in 2025 won a first-place Green Eyeshade award in Sports Commentary and has finished top 10 in column writing by the Associated Press Sports Editors on multiple occasions. Greg also hosts The Greg Cote Show podcast and appears regularly on The Dan LeBatard Show With Stugotz.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heat president Pat Riley, reacts prior to responding to a question during his season-ending press conference at Kaseya…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-254230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}