Hooped Up

Count Pat Riley among NBA coaches who don’t like wearing a microphone during nationally televised games.

Riley was one of the league’s test cases when the Heat played the Trail Blazers on Thursday. As part of the NBA’s deal with broadcast partners TNT and ABC/ESPN, both coaches and one player from each team will wear microphones.

“It’s good for television, but it’s an invasion of my privacy and our privacy when it comes to saying whatever you want to say without being exposed,” Riley said. “Coaches are going to be very inhibited. I won’t be able to deal with it very well, so I’ll be mute.”