Pat Riley

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Basketball player
Pat Riley
Pat Riley
Player information
Full name Patrick James Riley
birthday 20th March 1945 (age 75)
place of birth Rome , New York , United States
size 194 cm
position Shooting Guard / Small Forward
High school Linton, Schenectady, New York
college Kentucky
NBA draft 1967 , 7th pick, San Diego Rockets
Club information
society Miami Heat (President)
league NBA
Clubs as active
1964–1967 Kentucky Wildcats (NCAA) 1967–1970 San Diego Rockets 1970–1975 Los Angeles Lakers 1975–1976 Phoenix SunsUnited StatesUnited States
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Clubs as coaches
1981–1990 Los Angeles Lakers 1991–1995 New York Knicks 1995–2003 Miami Heat 2005–2008 Miami Heat United StatesUnited States
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Patrick James Riley (born March 20, 1945 in Rome , New York ) is a retired American basketball player and coach. He became known through his time as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA , between 1981 and 1989.

With a record of 1,210 wins and 694 losses, Riley is one of the most successful coaches in NBA history. In 20 years as a coach, he led his team to the play-offs 19 times and to the NBA final eight times. In 1996, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the NBA, he was chosen by selected journalists as one of the 10 best coaches in NBA history . In 2008 he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame .

Riley has been the Miami Heat team president since 1995 .

Career

During his college days at the University of Kentucky , Riley learned from the legendary coach Adolph Rupp . Between 1967 and 1976 Riley played for the San Diego Rockets , Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns . In 1972 he won the NBA championship as a player with the Lakers. In 1981 he succeeded Paul Westhead as head coach of the Lakers when he was sacked after an argument with star player Magic Johnson . With Riley the Lakers won four titles until 1988, u. a. the first title defense as Los Angeles Lakers in the club's history ('87, '88). After the Lakers were eliminated in the Western Conference Semifinals in 1990 against the Phoenix Suns, Riley gave up his coaching post.

The New York Knicks brought him in 1991 to make a title candidate out of their team around Starcenter Patrick Ewing . In the 1993 play-offs , the Knicks proved to be the toughest opponents for Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls , but it wasn't until 1994 that the Knicks made it to the finals. There they lost in a balanced series 3: 4 against the Houston Rockets with Hakeem Olajuwon . After winning the title again in 1995, Riley moved to Miami .

At the Miami Heat , he was also the coach and general manager . Riley managed to build a top-class team with players like Alonzo Mourning and Tim Hardaway . Between '98 and 2000, the Heat were subject to Riley's former employer, the Knicks, in the play-offs. In 2000, the star player of the Heat, Alonzo Mourning, was diagnosed with kidney damage, which is why they had to do without him in Miami. After Riley failed to bring the Heat back to the top of the league in 2002 and 2003, he gave his coaching post to Stan Van Gundy to devote his full attention to his obligations as general manager. During this time he exchanged Caron Butler , Brian Grant and Lamar Odom for the dominant center of the Lakers, Shaquille O'Neal and built a new team around Dwyane Wade and O'Neal.

On December 12, 2005, he took up his post again and then in February 2006, the position of General Manager to Randy pound. On June 20, 2006, he and the Miami Heat won the NBA championship by an away win in the sixth game of the Finals against the Dallas Mavericks . This was the first title win for the Miami Heat and the fifth for Riley himself. In late April 2008, Riley announced his retirement as a basketball coach. However, he remained team president of the Heat. As team president, he continued to make important personnel decisions and in 2010 was responsible for signing LeBron James and Chris Bosh , who formed a strong trio with Dwyane Wade and with whom he won the NBA championship in 2012 and 2013.

See also

literature

  • Pat Riley: The Winner Within. A life plan for team players , Berkley Books, New York 1993, ISBN 0-425-14175-6

Web links

Commons : Pat Riley  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NN: Top 10 Coaches in NBA History On: NBA website, New York 2017; accessed on June 17, 2017 (in English)
  2. ^ The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame :: Pat Riley. Retrieved April 22, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ brightsideofthesun.com: Throwback Thursday: 1990 Suns end Pat Riley's Showtime by finally slaying Lakers , accessed October 26, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Riley, Pat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riley, Patrick James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , New York, USA