{"id":506269,"date":"2026-07-17T20:10:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=506269"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:10:52","slug":"pat-riley-pitches-miami-to-lebron-james-the-weathers-nice-and-theres-no-state-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/pat-riley-pitches-miami-to-lebron-james-the-weathers-nice-and-theres-no-state-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Riley pitches Miami to LeBron James: The weather\u2019s nice and there\u2019s no state tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Riley addressed LeBron James\u2019 free agency and the possibility of the superstar returning to the Miami Heat. The Heat president confirmed that conversations have taken place with Rich Paul, LeBron\u2019s agent and CEO of Klutch Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had conversations with Rich Paul and they were very good,\u201d Riley said, leaving the door open to a potential move to Miami. His comments come as LeBron\u2019s decision continues to shape the market and even the NBA schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Riley then joked about Florida\u2019s advantages over rival destinations: \u201cIf LeBron wants to come to the 305, we got a golf course. The weather\u2019s nice. Steve Kerr, same thing down here. And there\u2019s no state tax. So that\u2019s a little better than California.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heat president confirms talks with Rich Paul as the superstar\u2019s decision remains pending<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-506269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Miami-Heay.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506269"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=506269"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=506269"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=506269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}