I’m a fairly regular watcher of the NBA. I still remember the first season of the Miami Heat when they started out 0-17. And at the trade deadline this year, after the Heat were supposedly left for dead when LeBron James went back to Cleveland, Pat Riley pulled off a pretty big trade for one of the top point guards in the NBA, making sure that the Heat were relevant again…almost immediately.
And, one of the things I have admired about Pat Riley as he has grown the Heat into a model organization is his willingness to always swing for the fences…and to poo poo the idea of rebuilding.
I think his approach is informative to us all because we all can get lulled into the idea of building for the future. But I’m not sure that I know where the saying came from, but the more I think about it…“the future is now."