After an embarrassing showing in the 2025 playoffs, the Miami Heat are due for some major changes this summer. In his annual press conference to end the season, team President Pat Riley confirmed that the strategy will not be to "run it back" after several years of limited roster moves.

Pat Riley’s memories of Jimmy Butler are still fond. Despite their reportedly contentious split, which played out across multiple scathing reports and an eventual trade that sent the six-time All-Star to Golden State in February, ending a magical six seasons in Miami, Riley didn’t torch the once fiery Heat star.

MIAMI — Pat Riley entered the room Friday afternoon in a blue sports jacket, salmon shirt and silver-fox hair that, as usual, provided stylish cover for the street fighter underneath. “How many of you were born after I got here?” the Miami Heat president said while taking a seat before the cameras for his postseason news conference.