http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/basketball/heat/sfl-riley092908,0,3938162.storyMiami Heat's Pat Riley: Only one got away
By Ira Winderman | Sun-Sentinel.com
1:45 PM EDT, August 28, 2008
MIAMI - Miami Heat President Pat Riley said today that only one player targeted by his team got away this summer. The surprise was that player was guard Roger Mason Jr., who left the Washington Wizards to sign as a free agent with the San Antonio Spurs.
Riley, addressing his team's personnel for the first time in weeks, said his goal had been to add both Mason and forward James Jones, but ultimately had to settle on adding Jones as a free agent from the Portland Trail Blazers.
"The only player that we didn't get in free agency that we wanted was Roger Mason and we couldn't. It was going to be either/or, really," Riley said shortly after a ceremony at AmericanAirlines Arena that saluted Dwyane Wade's gold-medal success at the Beijing Olympics. "We tried to convince one of them to take the $1.9 (million low-level salary-cap exception). But everybody else we wanted, we got."
