American basketball player, coach, and executive (born 1945)
For other people named Patrick Riley, see Patrick Riley (disambiguation).
Pat Riley
Riley in 2010
Miami Heat
Position
President
League
NBA
Personal information
Born
(1945-03-20) March 20, 1945 (age 79) Rome, New York, U.S.
Listed height
6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight
205 lb (93 kg)
Career information
High school
Linton (Schenectady, New York)
College
Kentucky (1964–1967)
NBA draft
1967: 1st round, 7th overall pick
Selected by the San Diego Rockets
Playing career
1967–1976
Position
Shooting guard
Number
42, 12
Coaching career
1979–2008
Career history
As player:
1967–1970
San Diego Rockets
1970–1975
Los Angeles Lakers
1975–1976
Phoenix Suns
As coach:
1979–1981
Los Angeles Lakers (assistant)
1981–1990
Los Angeles Lakers
1991–1995
New York Knicks
1995–2003, 2005–2008
Miami Heat
Career highlights and awards
As player:
NBA champion (1972)
First-team All-American – USBWA (1966)
Third-team All-American – AP, UPI (1966)
SEC Player of the Year – AP (1966)
No. 42 retired by Kentucky Wildcats
As head coach:
5× NBA champion (1982, 1985, 1987, 1988, 2006)
3× NBA Coach of the Year (1990, 1993, 1997)
9× NBA All-Star Game head coach (1982, 1983, 1985–1990, 1993)
Top 10 Coaches in NBA History
Top 15 Coaches in NBA History
As assistant coach:
NBA champion (1980)
As executive:
2× NBA champion (2012, 2013)
NBA Executive of the Year (2011)
Career NBA playing statistics
Points
3,906 (7.4 ppg)
Rebounds
855 (1.6 rpg)
Assists
913 (1.7 apg)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Career coaching record
NBA
1210–694 (.636)
Basketball Hall of Fame as coach
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). Since the start of his career in the NBA, Riley has appeared in 25 percent of all NBA Finals in history over his span as player, coach, and executive.[1]
Riley was named NBA Coach of the Year three times (1989–90, 1992–93 and 1996–97, as head coach of the Lakers, New York Knicks and Heat, respectively). He was head coach of an NBA All-Star Game team nine times: eight times with the Western Conference team (1982, 1983, 1985–1990, all as head coach of the Lakers) and once with the Eastern team (1993, as head coach of the Knicks). 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, and in various roles has reached the NBA finals in six different decades.[2] In 1996, he was named one of the 10 Greatest Coaches in NBA history. Riley most recently won the 2012 and 2013 NBA championships with the Heat as their team president. He received the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award from the NBA Coaches Association on June 20, 2012.
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of Fame in 1986 as a coach. Besides Holzman, Rick Pitino, Don Nelson, PatRiley, Lenny Wilkens, and Larry Brown have been inducted into the Basketball...
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coaches who have won multiple championships with more than one team (PatRiley and Alex Hannum are the others). Red Auerbach won nine championships with...
the Knicks hired PatRiley as head coach. In contrast to the fast-paced style of Showtime he used with the Los Angeles Lakers, Riley took a more deliberate...
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born in England, won the award in 2013. Larry Bird, Frank Layden and PatRiley join Red Auerbach as the only recipients to have also received NBA Coach...
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the 1981 playoffs, but the Lakers' then-assistant and future head coach PatRiley later said Johnson's much-anticipated return made the Lakers a "divided...
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the Chicago Bulls with six. Phil Jackson appears six times on the list; PatRiley appears five times and Gregg Popovich four. Jackson (coaching the Lakers...
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