Pat Riley

Pat Riley

Riley speaks at Eglin Air Force Base in 2010
Miami Heat
Position	President
League	NBA
Personal information
Born	(1945-03-20) March 20, 1945 (age 71) Rome, New York
Nationality	American
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 / Round: 1 / Pick: 7th overall
Selected by the San Diego Rockets
Playing career	1967–1976
Position	Guard / Forward
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 As assistant coach NBA champion (1980) 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 As executive: 3× NBA champion (2006, 2012, 2013) NBA Executive of the Year (2011)
Career NBA statistics
Points	3,906 (7.4 ppg)
Rebounds	855 (1.6 rpg)
Assists	913 (1.7 apg)
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Basketball Hall of Fame as coach

As player:

As assistant coach

As head coach:

As executive:

Patrick James Riley (born March 20, 1945) is an American professional basketball executive, and a former coach and player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been the team president of the Miami Heat since 1995 and head coach in two separate tenures (1995 through 2003, and 2005 through 2008). He is regarded as one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time, Riley has served as the head coach of five championship teams, four with the Los Angeles Lakers and one with the Heat.

He 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). In 1996 he was named one of the 10 Greatest Coaches in the NBA history. As a player, he played for the Lakers' championship team in 1972. Riley most recently won the 2012 and 2013 NBA championships with the Heat as their team president. He is the first North American sports figure to win a championship as a player, coach (both assistant and head), and executive. He received the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award from the NBA Coaches Association on June 20, 2012.