Well, this team is contagious. It might be the Riley's aura or something.
Call me paranoid, but each player that enter this team becomes a bad person.
As a result none of them are champions in my eyes. The only one that got a title is Ray (because he deserved it while in Boston). The rest is pure fake and has no value.
I guess that's enough punishment for a man that will look back at his career when he reach 60 and realize what he has done just for the sake of holding a shiny item once in a while.
Don't hurt him, let it be who he is and watch him loose and become a grumpy old man.
I didn't follow closely the past generation of players, but it looks like to me that the great Thomas was a bully and not very friendly like Wade. As a result, it looks like he's desperate to pay back right now to balance his life (mentoring our Thomas for example).
Guilt is a very powerful thing that can eat you with age.