Some older fans of the Miami Heat might remember former forward Dorell Wright.
Wright played the opening six seasons of his pro career in Miami after the squad used the No. 19 overall pick in the 2004 NBA Draft on him.
Wright just so happened to play alongside Heat legend Dwyane Wade for the entirety of his six-season stretch with the team, and Wade revealed that longtime team president Pat Riley once kicked Wright out of a team meeting because he would laugh too much.
DWade says Pat Riley once kicked Dorell Wright out of a meeting because he would laugh too much:
“When we say Pat walked in one of the meetings and said, ‘DWright, you got to get out because this sh*t too funny for you, this is real.” pic.twitter.com/8TSUFu3YNa
— Wy Network by Dwyane Wade (@wynetwork) August 24, 2025
“Yo, think about being in a locker room with this — this is a 39-year-old man on this screen right now frozen, OK?” Wade said. “Think about being in a locker room with this 19-year-old kid in an NBA locker room. Listen, when we say Pat walked in one of the meetings and said, ‘D Wright, you got to get out because this s— going to be too funny for you.’ This is real.”
Wright was a member of the Heat team that won the first title in franchise history back in 2006, but he wasn’t an overly important member of that squad. He played in just 20 games in the 2005-06 regular season and didn’t see the court at all in the 2006 NBA Playoffs.
After Wright spent his opening two seasons on the Heat primarily glued to the bench, he was an effective role player near the end of his stint in Miami thanks in large to his ability to space the floor behind the 3-point line. Across 122 games played in his final three seasons with the franchise, he shot 38.7 percent from deep on 1.4 tries per contest.
Unfortunately, he just missed out on being part of the most successful era in the history of the Heat franchise. He signed a three-year deal with the Golden State Warriors back in the summer of 2010, and forward LeBron James and big man Chris Bosh just so happened to join forces with Wade in Miami that summer.
Wright could have added more championships to his name had he stuck around with the Heat, as Miami won back-to-back titles in 2012 and 2013 during the Big 3 era.
While it’s unfortunate that Wright retired with only one ring, he did carve out some really solid individual seasons while playing for the Warriors and Portland Trail Blazers later in his career. He even averaged a career-high 16.4 points per game with the Warriors in the 2010-11 campaign and started all 82 games for Golden State.
He last played in the NBA with Portland back in the 2014-15 season.