Rick Pitino

Rick Pitino
Player information
Full name	Richard Andrew Pitino
birthday	18th September 1952 (age 67)
place of birth	New York City , New York , USA
size	183 cm
position	Point guard
Clubs as active
1971–1974 UMass
Clubs as coaches
1974–1976 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors (assistant coach) 1976–1978 Syracuse Orange (assistant coach) 1978–1983 Boston University Terriers 1983–1985 New York Knicks (assistant coach) 1985–1987 Providence Friar 1987–1989 New York Knicks 1989 –1997 Kentucky Wildcats 1997–2001 Boston Celtics 2001–2017 Louisville Cardinals 2018–2020 Panathinaikos Athens Since 2020 Iona College 0
National team as coach
2015 Puerto Rico Since 2019 Greece00000 0

Richard Andrew Pitino (born September 18, 1952 in New York City , New York ) is an American basketball coach who has coached the basketball team at Iona College in New Rochelle , New York since 2020 . In addition, he has been the coach of the Greek national team since 2019 .

Pitino is counted among the most successful coaches in college basketball . His annual salary was most recently $ 7.7 million, of which 5 million from college and 2 million from Adidas . In 2013 he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach .

career

Start time

Pitino played on the University of Massachusetts Amherst basketball team for three years after high school . He was mainly used as a point guard .

Coaching career

Following his college days, he started his coaching career in 1974, initially as an assistant coach at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and later at Syracuse University .

From 1978 Pitino took over Boston University as a trainer. After receiving an offer from the New York Knicks as an assistant coach, he left Boston University in 1983 and assisted Hubie Brown with the Knicks for two years. In 1985 he accepted an offer from Providence College . In 1987 he led his Friars with the then Guard Billy Donovan for the first time into the National Collegiate Athletic Association - Final Four and was honored with the admission into the Providence College Hall of Fame .

In the same year, Pitino received another offer to switch to the NBA. This time as the coach of the New York Knicks. He led the Knicks to Patrick Ewing and Mark Jackson in 1988 and 1989 in the NBA playoffs. Nevertheless, he then left the Knicks and became a coach at the University of Kentucky , whose program he rebuilt after a scandal about the previous coach Eddie Sutton and with whose Wildcats he won the 1996 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship . In 1997 he succeeded again in the NCAA finals, where however the University of Arizona was defeated.

He then accepted an offer from the Boston Celtics in 1997 as their coach until 2001. However, the Celtics were an unsuccessful franchise under him that failed to reach the playoffs. After twelve wins from 32 games in the 2000/01 NBA season , Pitino was sacked by the Celtics. Pitino then took over the University of Louisville . With the Cardinals he reached the NCAA Final Four for the first time in 19 years. In 2012 and 2013 he repeated this success. In 2013 he won the NCAA championship for the second time with Louisville, making him the first NCAA Division I coach to win a championship with two different college teams.

In his career as a college coach, Pitino has 770 wins in over 1000 games (74% win rate). His NBA odds are 192 wins in 412 NBA games (46.6% win rate). Pitino has been a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame since 2013 .

Rick Pitino (2012)

Between 2010 and 2015, Pitino also oversaw the Puerto Rico national basketball team . He resigned in September 2015 after the team finished fifth in the South American elimination round for the 2016 Summer Olympics under his leadership.

In late September 2017, Pitino was sacked as head coach at the University of Louisville with immediate effect. The day before, the US Federal Police had informed the FBI that they had started investigations against two unnamed Louisville coaches for unauthorized payments to high school players. Adidas employees were also arrested in connection with the bribery scandal. In June 2017, Pitino was banned from the NCAA for the first five games of the Atlantic Coast Conference in the 2017/18 season. The NCAA saw it as proven that Pitino was guilty of failure to monitor the manager of his team. According to NCAA investigations, the manager had supplied prostitutes to high school players courted by Louisville, among others.

On December 26, 2018, Pitino signed a half-year deal with Greek record champions Panathinaikos Athens . Pitino won the Greek championship and the cup competition with Panathinaikos. He turned down a contract extension he had been offered at the end of the 2018/19 season, as he preferred to return to the United States for family reasons.

In November 2019 he was introduced as the new coach of the Greek national team. He was given the task of overseeing the selection at the elimination tournament for the 2020 Summer Olympics. At the end of November 2019, he also took over the coaching position at Panathinaikos. This dual role prompted three national players under contract with Panathinaikos' arch-rivals Olympiacos Piraeus to indicate in a letter to the Greek association that they did not want to play under Pitino as coach of the Greek national team.

In mid-March 2020, Iona College ( New Rochelle , New York) announced Pitino's appointment as head coach.

See also

• List of members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Web links

• Rick Pitino in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (English)
• Rick Pitino - Trainer profile on euroleague.net
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/college/louisville/2017/03/29/louisville-basketball-rick-pitino-salary-comparison-acc-coaches-usa-today-database/99771298 /
2. ^ The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame :: Rick Pitino. In: hoophall.com. Retrieved May 3, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Providence College Hall of Fame Honor Roll Retrieved June 21, 2017 (in English)
4. ^ Like Rome, Kentucky basketball is a storied, flawed empire: Bill Livingston
5. ^ Louisville Wins NCAA Championship
6. ↑ The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame - The Class of 2013. April 30, 2013, accessed November 30, 2019 . 
7. ^ Rick Pitino hands the Puerto Rico national team to his assistants
8. ^ Pitino steps down as Puerto Rico national coach. In: ESPN. September 10, 2015, accessed December 1, 2019 . 
9. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/sports/rick-pitino-fired.html
10. ↑ Jason Kirk: 18 key figures in the FBI's college basketball probe. September 27, 2017, accessed November 30, 2019 . 
11. ^ NCAA suspends Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino in escort scandal. Retrieved November 30, 2019 . 
12. ↑ [email protected]: Former Louisville operations director acted unethically, head coach failed to monitor. June 15, 2017, accessed November 30, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Panathinaikos hires Hall of Famer Pitino as head coach. In: euroleague.net. Retrieved November 30, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Rick Pitino: I'd probably return to Greece if it wasn't for some personal issues. July 12, 2019, accessed November 30, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Jeff Zillgitt: Rick Pitino wants to coach Greece's national basketball team, attempt to qualify for Olympics. Retrieved November 20, 2019 (American English). 
16. ↑ Grèce: l'arrivée de Rick Pitino en sélection crée de grosses tensions. In: Basket USA. Retrieved November 30, 2019 (French). 
17. ↑ Pitino, Panathinaikos re-unite! In: euroleague.net. Retrieved November 30, 2019 . 
18. ^ Olympiacos trio voice concerns over Pitino appointment. Retrieved November 30, 2019 (American English). 
19. ^ Iona College Names Hall of Famer Rick Pitino as Men's Head Basketball Coach. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .