As the Miami Heat continue to relish in their success of winning their second consecutive NBA title, team president Pat Riley made the priority clear Wednesday on what the tea plans to do next.
"We don't like to change," he said at the same podium where his players and coach spoke the previous two days about their goal of defending their 2013 NBA championship. "I don't like to change that much, not when you're winning."
He then supported his words by announcing, first that the team has picked up the $54 million 2013-14 team option on the contract of point guard Mario Chalmers, and how he'd prefer to not expose forward Mike Miller to the offseason amnesty-release program, and is instead hopeful to having Miller on his roster next season.
Riley also expressed his interest in free-agent center Greg Oden as a possible pickup for next season.
"We visited," Riley said. "Greg was in Miami with his agent, Mike Conley Sr., and we had a good two-day visit. We will explore that and see where it goes because of the possibilities.
"There's been a lot of players young in their careers that have had chronic injuries that somewhere . . . it doesn't happen to them anymore. I think he's such a young player and to be such a force, that you'd want to monitor him very closely. So we will do that."
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