Pat Riley’s resignation shook the city, because the Knicks had been shaking the city for four years and Riley was the epicenter of that.
For a time, the talk of that bright Thursday afternoon at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club was the swollen galleries that followed one of the three-man groups at the 1995 U.S. Open.
It was at that hour that much of sporting New York learned the news on June 15, 1995, that Pat Riley had faxed in his resignation to the Knicks. He’d arrived in 1991 with a promise to return the Knicks to prominence, and he’d done that. Riley was the epicenter of that earthquake. Now he was gone.And that was before it became apparent that Riley wasn’t leaving to find himself on a beach somewhere, or to spend more time with his family. Soon enough, we learned each of the 14 demands the Miami Heat had already agreed to, and the fury only multiplied.
“There is no doubt in my mind,” one said, “that there would be at least three or four more banners in the rafters. None. It is impossible to believe otherwise.” Added another: “And the one thing nobody has ever said about Dolan is that he’s cheap. He’d have paid Pat every nickel he wanted, given him a fleet of private planes if he kept winning and they kept making a fortune together.”
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