pat riley is a coaching legend and owns the term, threepeat. riley legally locked down the term when he was coach of the los angeles lakers. >> threepeat has become a valuable term. >> reporter: professor roents says the trademark includes various spellings. >> every iteration, he has registered. >> reporter: if the team wins the rare three championships in a row, they'll have to paterson riley to use the term. >> if the chiefs win and they threepeat and it shows up on merchandise, pat riley could get paid. >> absolutely true. he's licensed it in the past, well into te millions. >> reporter: earlier this week, we ran into the chiefs owner and asked him if his team pulled off the win, would he be willing to pay to put threepeat on merchandise? >> we've got a difficult task on sunday playing a very good philadelphia eagle team. if we're lucky enough to win the game, we'll worry about the trademark. >> reporter: only a handful of pro teams have threepeats. yankees, bulls, leakers, houston comets. interesting note. pat riley had never threepeated.

butler wanted a big extension from the heat, and pat riley said, we ain't doing that. so butler started acting out and as a result, he's been suspended three times this season. jimmy buckets he's been unhappy in philly, in minnesota, in miami. so who knows how this is going to play out here. but at least he got paid. butler a six time all star, five time all nba selection, five time nba all-defensive team member. he can play averages 17 points, five boards, five assists per game. he's already signed a two year extension with the dubs or agreed to it for $121 million. now to get butler the warriors are sending andrew wiggins, dennis schroder kyle anderson and a protected first round pick all to miami. steph curry knows the warriors added a winner in butler. >> we know who jimmy is. we have two finals. he's a winner i understand there's a lot of drama down there and who really knows what the story is. we expect to have a motivated committed you know jimmy that's ready to impact our team for the for the better. got to work out the kinks of you know what it looks like. and

butler wanted a big extension from the heat, and pat riley said, we ain't doing that. so butler started acting out and as a result, he's been suspended three times this season. jimmy buckets he's been unhappy in philly, in minnesota, in miami. so who knows how this is going to play out here. but at least he got paid. butler a six time all star, five time all nba selection, five time nba all-defensive team member. he can play averages 17 points, five boards, five assists per game. he's already signed a two year extension with the dubs or agreed to it for $121 million. now to get butler the warriors are sending andrew wiggins, dennis schroder kyle anderson and a protected first round pick all to miami. steph curry knows the warriors added a winner in butler. >> we know who jimmy is. we have two finals. he's a winner i understand there's a lot of drama down there and who really knows what the story is. we expect to have a motivated committed you know jimmy that's ready to impact our team for the for the better. got to work out the kinks of you know what it looks like. and

pat riley said nah.ted acting out, so he has been suspended three times this season. jimmy buckets, as he's been called. he's been unhappy in philly, minnesota and miami. so who knows how this thing is going to go here. but he's a six time all star, five time all nba selection, five time nba all-defensive team member. definitely makes the warriors better. averaging 17 points, five boards, five assists per game. and he's already signed a two year extension with the dubs for $121 million to get butler. the warriors are sending andrew wiggins, dennis schroder, kyle anderson and a protected first round pick to miami. warriors are playing at utah right now. they're at the lakers tomorrow and chicago on saturday. the golden state valkyries first ever regular season game just over three months away. and today, the team unveiled their brand new performance center in oakland, which of course used to be the home of the warriors. as abc seven's chris alvarez reports, today was another major step towards taking the

number one, i'm here reporting, of course, on pat riley, who happens to own the copyright on the termich leads. >> me to my second view, which is that the chiefs are on the road to fulfilling a prediction. >> i made. >> for you on this program. what feels like a million years ago. but the view here is that the. kansas city. >> chiefs. >> i could i could give you the poetry. i can give you the argument that the philadelphia eagles, of course, are the toughest team mahomes has faced in his run. that's true. they have a rushing attack led by saquon barkley. that is unbelievable. barkley might have the best season for a running back of all time that he just accomplished. and yet i say to you are our memories really that short? the three peat to me feels. >> inevitable. >> and i just want all of us to brace for a world in which we will have a quarterback in mahomes who will have done something that no one has ever done in the sport. that's the view from here. >> yeah. you know, last year i thought it was i thought it was an incredible matchup between the 40 niners who had an extraordinary