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PAT RILEY
Miami Heat Head Coach
President and Head Coach of The Miami Heat, Pat Riley has posted 50-plus win seasons in 13 consecutive years which is unprecedented in the NBA. Riley concluded the 1996 regular season with a 798-389 career record, a sizzling .702 mark. Riley's 137 playoff victories rank first in league post-season annuals as the only coach to secure 100 or more playoff victories. Pat Riley surpassed the legendary Red Auerbach's 99 playoff wins in 1990. Pat has won six world championships as a player and coach.
Pat Riley is not only one of pro basketball's successful coaches, but his presentations before hundreds of organizations have earned him the title of "America's Greatest Motivational Speaker." He has been rated by Success magazine as, "The best in his field." Riley is a consummate competitor who knows the exhilaration that comes with winning. Riley's philosophy is based upon winning, leadership, mastery, change, and personal growth as well as understanding and controlling the shifting dynamics of a team -- any team, whether it is a small company, a giant corporation, a city, or a group of athletes. Pat has also completed an award winning 30-minute Motivational video entitled "Teamwork" In which he applies his winning philosophies to business and life in general. His books "Show Time" and "The Winner Within" have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Pat Riley brought the 1993-94 New York Knicks to the franchise's first NBA Finals in more than two decades. During the 1994-95 regular season, Riley led New York to a 57-25 record and won their second Atlantic Division Crown. Riley was named NBA Coach of the Year under the Knicks during the 1992-93 season. Pat Riley has coached in nine out of 14 All-Star Games, once as the East Coast coach with the Knicks, and eight times as the West Coast coach with the Lakers.
Pat Riley was "Coach of the Eighties" when he led the Los Angeles Lakers to four World Championships. During nine seasons as head coach of the Laker dynasty from 1981-82 through 1989-90, Pat Riley became the all-time winningest percentage head coach in NBA history with a remarkable 533-194 record for a.733 winning percentage. The Lakers finished atop the Pacific Division in each of those nine campaigns, never posting less than 50 victories, and five time reaching 60 or more wins. In fact, in 1987-88, the Lakers set an NBA record by becoming this first club in history to record a fourth straight 60 win season. Riley piloted the Lakers to NBA titles In 1982, 1985, 1987, and 1988. These four championships as a head coach rank third in NBA annals to Red Auerbach's nine and John Kundla's five. Riley was named NBA Coach of the year under the Lakers during the 1989-90 season.
Pat Riley was the San Diego Rockets first-round draft pick (seventh overall) In 1967, launching a nine year NBA career. He played three seasons in San Diego before joining the Los Angeles Lakers in 1970. Riley spent five full seasons in a Laker uniform and averaged 6.7 ppg on Los Angeles' 1971-72 NBA championship team. Riley completed his NBA career with the Phoenix Suns in 1976.
Prior to his professional career, Riley was a collegiate star at the University of Kentucky (1963-67). He was the Wildcats' MVP for three seasons, averaged 22 ppg in his junior year as Kentucky made the NCAA finals, and was team captain as a senior.
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