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Pat Riley
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American basketball player, coach and executive
Key facts
- Title
- President
- League
- NBA
- Born
- ( 1945-03-20 ) March 20, 1945 (age 81) , Rome, New York , U.S.
- Listed height
- 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
- Listed weight
- 205 lb (93 kg)
- High school
- Linton ( Schenectady, New York )
- College
- Kentucky (1964–1967)
- Nba draft
- 1967 : 1st round, 7th overall pick
- Drafted by
- San Diego Rockets
- Playing career
- 1967–1976
- Position
- Shooting guard
- Number
- 42, 12
- Coaching career
- 1979–2008
- 1967 1970
- San Diego Rockets
- 1970 1975
- Los Angeles Lakers
- 1975 1976
- Phoenix Suns
- 1979 1981
- Los Angeles Lakers (assistant)
- 1981 1990
- Los Angeles Lakers
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Riley
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Rome
- Native language
- English language
- Sport
- basketball
- Member of team
- Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball
- Position played
- shooting guard
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 93
- Image
- Pat Riley speaks at Eglin Air Force Base (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 193
- Residence
- Rome
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- date of birth
- 1945-03-20
- Commons category
- Pat Riley
- drafted by
- Houston Rockets
- end of work period
- 1976-00-00
- start of work period
- 1967-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Patrick James Riley (born March 20, 1945) is an American professional basketball executive, former coach, and former player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been the team president of the Miami Heat since 1995, and he also served as the team's head coach from 1995 to 2003 and again from 2005 to 2008.
Often referred to as "the Godfather", Riley is regarded as one of the greatest NBA figures of all time both as a coach and executive. He has won five NBA championships as a head coach, four with the Los Angeles Lakers during their Showtime era in the 1980s and one with the Heat in 2006. Riley is a nine-time NBA champion across his tenures as a player (1972), assistant coach (1980), head coach (1982, 1985, 1987, 1988, 2006), and executive (2012, 2013). He is the first North American sports figure to win a championship as a player, as an assistant coach, as a head coach, and as an executive. Since the start of his NBA career through 2023, Riley has reached 19 NBA finals across six different decades, making 25 percent of all NBA Finals as a player, coach, or executive.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pat Riley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.