Word: riley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alonzo Mourning, by all accounts the most deserving MVP candidate in the league, watched Houston's desperation attempt drop downward toward the paint. Mourning blossomed under Pat Riley's tutelage into one of the NBA's finest all-around centers, and almost single-handedly carried the Heat to the best record in the East...
Additionally, "[o]ne of Chief Riley's vagariesis that he tends at times to be preoccupied and doseveral things at the same time," Kelling wrote."At times, he doesn't follow through withanything...
...report further backs Riley, concluding thatcharges of favoritism leveled against him areuntrue and stem from the department's small sizeand history of internal quarrels...
...charge that Riley is humorless is alsofound to be baseless in Kelling's study. "ChiefRiley regularly comments about the world andevents with a Jack Benny-like droll humor that, ifone listens carefully, is self-mocking....He is abit of a character," the report states...
...plan to put into practice each and everyone of George's recommendations," Riley said...