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Did Pat Riley win with the second team Riley was traded to?
Riley played basketball for Linton High School in Schenectady, New York under head coach Walt Przybylo and his assistants Bill Rapavy and Ed Catino. Linton High School's 74-68 victory over New York City's Power Memorial on December 29, 1961, is remembered mostly for its two stars: Power Memorial's Lew Alcindor (who later changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar); and his future coach with the Los Angeles Lakers, Pat Riley. In 1991, Riley called it, "One of the greatest games in the history of Schenectady basketball."  Riley was a versatile athlete in college, participating in both basketball and football. As a junior on the 1965-66 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team he was named First Team All-SEC, All-NCAA Tournament Team, NCAA Regional Player of the Year, SEC Player of the Year and AP Third Team All-American, leading the Wildcats to the 1966 NCAA title game. Coached by Adolph Rupp, UK lost to Texas Western (today's UTEP), a game that was reenacted in the movie Glory Road. In his senior year Riley made First Team All-SEC, one of the only players in storied Kentucky Basketball history to make two or more First Team All-SEC teams.  He was selected by the San Diego Rockets in the 1st round of the 1967 NBA draft, and was also drafted as a wide receiver by the Dallas Cowboys in the 11th round of the 1967 NFL Draft. He joined the Rockets and was later selected by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 1970 NBA expansion draft, but was immediately traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, which he helped toward the 1972 NBA Championship both by coming off the bench in games and by guarding friend and Laker guard Jerry West in practice. He retired after the 1975-76 NBA season as a member of the Western Conference champion Phoenix Suns.  Riley finished his NBA playing career with a 7.4 points per game scoring average and a field-goal percentage of 41.4%. CANNOTANSWER
he helped toward the 1972 NBA Championship
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 he also served as the team's head coach from 1995 to 2003 and again from 2005 to 2008. Regarded as one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time, Riley has won five NBA championships as a head coach, including four with the Los Angeles Lakers during their Showtime era in the 1980s and one with the Heat in 2006. Riley is a ten-time NBA champion across his tenures as a player (1972), assistant coach (1980), head coach (1982, 1985, 1987, 1988, 2006), and executive (2006, 2012, 2013).

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. 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.

Early life
Riley was born in Rome, New York and raised in Schenectady, New York. He is the son of Mary Rosalia (Balloga) and Leon Riley, who played 22 seasons of minor league baseball as an outfielder and first baseman, and appeared in four games for the 1944 Philadelphia Phillies.

Riley played basketball for Linton High School in Schenectady under head coach Walt Przybylo and assistants Bill Rapavy and Ed Catino. Linton High School's 74–68 victory over New York City's Power Memorial on December 29, 1961 is remembered mostly for its two stars: Power Memorial's Lew Alcindor (who later changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) and Riley, who would go on to coach Abdul-Jabbar with the Los Angeles Lakers. In 1991, Riley called it, "One of the greatest games in the history of Schenectady basketball."

College career (1963–1967)
Riley played college basketball for four seasons for the Kentucky Wildcats--one on the freshman team and three on the varsity. As a junior on the 1965–66 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team, he was named First Team All-SEC, All-NCAA Tournament Team, NCAA Regional Player of the Year, SEC Player of the Year and AP Third Team All-American, leading the Wildcats to the 1966 NCAA title game. Coached by Adolph Rupp, UK lost to Texas Western (today's UTEP), a game that was reenacted in the movie Glory Road. In his senior year, Riley made First Team All-SEC, becoming one of the few players in storied Kentucky basketball history to be named First Team All-SEC twice.

Professional playing career (1967–1976)
Riley was selected by the San Diego Rockets as the seventh overall pick of the 1967 NBA draft. Despite the fact that he had not played college football, Riley was also drafted as a wide receiver by the Dallas Cowboys in the 11th round of the 1967 NFL Draft. After playing three seasons with the Rockets, he was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 1970 NBA expansion draft. The Blazers traded Riley to the Los Angeles Lakers, where he played for five seasons. Riley played a significant role as a reserve on the Lakers' 1972 NBA Championship team. During the 1975–76 NBA season, Riley was traded to the Phoenix Suns. He retired in 1976, having averaged 7.4 points per game over his nine seasons in the league.

Coaching and executive career (1979–present)

Los Angeles Lakers (1979–1990)
Riley returned to the NBA in 1977 as a broadcaster for the Lakers. In November 1979, after the team's head coach, Jack McKinney, was injured in a near-fatal bicycle accident, assistant coach Paul Westhead took over the team's head coaching duties and hired Riley as an assistant coach. With rookie guard Magic Johnson and longtime star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the Lakers defeated the Philadelphia 76ers in six games in the 1980 NBA Finals, giving Westhead and Riley championship rings in their first year coaching the team.  However, the team lost in the playoffs the next year to the Moses Malone-led Houston Rockets.

Six games into the 1981–82 season, Magic Johnson said he wished to be traded because he was unhappy playing for Westhead.  Shortly afterward, Lakers' owner Jerry Buss fired Westhead.  At an ensuing press conference, with Jerry West at his side, Buss named West head coach.  West, however, balked, and Buss awkwardly tried to name West as "offensive captain" and then named West and Riley as co-coaches.  West made it clear during the press conference that he would only assist Riley, and that Riley was the head coach. Thereafter, Riley was the interim head coach, until his status became permanent. 

Riley ushered in the Lakers' "Showtime" era, along with superstar players Johnson and Abdul-Jabbar with their running game. Riley became a celebrity in his own right, a fashion icon for his Armani suits and slicked-back hair which complemented the team's Hollywood image. 

Besides using Lakers' up-tempo style established by McKinney and Westhead, Riley was also innovative on defense; he was one of the first coaches to employ a 1-3-1 half-court trap to pick up the pace of the game. Though the Showtime Lakers were known for their offense, they won championships with their defense. In Cooper, they had one of the top defensive stoppers in the game. The league-wide perception was that the Lakers played with finesse and were not physical enough to win in the playoffs. Riley's mantra was "no rebounds, no rings", reinforcing the need to fight for rebounds in order to win championships.

Riley led the Lakers to four consecutive NBA Finals appearances. His first title came in his first season, against the Philadelphia 76ers. Both teams returned to the Finals the next year, and this time Riley's Lakers were swept by the 76ers. The Lakers lost in the Finals again in 1984, to the Boston Celtics in seven games. The Lakers earned Riley his second NBA title in 1985 in a rematch of the previous year, as the Lakers beat the Celtics in six games.  The Lakers' four-year Western Conference streak was broken the following year by the Houston Rockets.

In 1987, Riley coached a Lakers team that is considered one of the best teams of all time. With future Hall of Famers Magic Johnson, James Worthy and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, plus Michael Cooper, Byron Scott, A. C. Green, Mychal Thompson, and Kurt Rambis, the Lakers finished 65–17 in the regular season, third-best in team history. They met with similar success in the playoffs, dispatching the Celtics in six games to win Riley his third NBA title.

One of Riley's most famous moments came when he guaranteed the crowd a repeat championship during the Lakers' championship parade in downtown Los Angeles (he first made the guarantee during the post-victory locker room celebration). While the 1988 Lakers did not produce as many wins in the regular season as the 1987 Lakers, they still won the NBA title, becoming the first team in 19 years to repeat as champions. The Lakers beat the Detroit Pistons in seven games in the 1988 NBA Finals, making good on Riley's promise. Riley's titles with the Lakers make him one of six men to play for an NBA Championship team and later coach the same NBA team to a championship; the others are George Senesky, Bill Russell, Tom Heinsohn, K. C. Jones and Billy Cunningham.

Although Riley would offer no further guarantees, his Lakers embarked upon a quest to obtain a third consecutive championship in 1989. Having successfully claimed a repeat championship the year before, the term used for this new goal was a three-peat championship, and Riley, through his corporate entity, Riles & Co., trademarked the phrase three-peat. However, in a rematch of the previous year's finals series, the Lakers were swept by the Pistons in the 1989 NBA Finals.

Riley was named  NBA Coach of the Year for the first time in 1989–90, but stepped down as Lakers head coach after they lost to the Phoenix Suns in the playoffs. At the time of his departure, Riley was the foremost coach in the NBA with a level of fame not seen since Red Auerbach.

New York Knicks (1991–1995)
After stepping down, Riley accepted a job as a television commentator for NBC for one year before being named head coach of the New York Knicks, starting with the 1991–92 season.

Commentators admired Riley's ability to work with the physical, deliberate Knicks, adapting his "Showtime" style with the fast-paced Laker teams in the 1980s. The Chicago Bulls had easily swept the Knicks in 1991 en route to their first championship. However, in 1992, with Riley, the Knicks pushed the defending champion Bulls to seven games in the Eastern Conference semifinals. The physical defense of the Knicks against the Chicago Bulls' superstars Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen during the 1992 playoffs led to a feud between Riley and Bulls head coach Phil Jackson regarding the officiating and the Knicks' rough style of play. In 1993, Riley led the Knicks to their best regular season record in team history (tied with the 1969–1970 team) and received his second Coach of the Year award. The Knicks again met the Bulls in the Eastern Conference finals but lost in six games after winning the first two games at home. Jackson's Bulls that season went on to win the finals and accomplish a "three-peat," despite Riley's trademark in 1989.

Riley returned to the NBA Finals, in 1994, en route defeating the three-time defending champion Bulls (without Michael Jordan) in seven games during the Eastern Conference semifinals. However, New York lost in seven games to the Houston Rockets after being up 3–2 in the series. During the 1994 Finals, Riley became the first coach to participate in an NBA Finals Game 7 with two teams, having been with the Lakers in 1984 and 1988. However, he had the unfortunate distinction of becoming the first (and to date, only) coach to lose an NBA Finals Game 7 with two teams, having lost to the Celtics, in 1984. It also denied him the distinction of becoming the first coach to win a Game 7 in the Finals with two teams, having defeated the Pistons in seven games, in 1988.

Miami Heat (1995–present)
In 1995, Riley resigned from the Knicks via fax to become president and head coach of the Miami Heat, with complete control over basketball operations. The move caused some controversy, as the Heat were accused by the Knicks of tampering by pursuing Riley while he still had a year remaining on his contract with the Knicks. The matter was settled after the Heat sent their 1996 first-round pick (which the Knicks used to draft Walter McCarty) and $1 million in cash to the Knicks on September 1, 1995.

In the 1995–96 NBA season, Riley led the Heat to a 42–40 record, which was a 10-game improvement over the team's previous season. Miami was swept in the first round of the playoffs by the Phil Jackson-coached Chicago Bulls, who went on to win the NBA championship. This Heat season was notable for personnel changes, as the team welcomed franchise building blocks Alonzo Mourning and Tim Hardaway. Following the season, the Heat also obtained Nets forward P.J. Brown and Suns swingman Dan Majerle.

In 1997, Riley's Heat defeated his old team, the Knicks, in a physical seven-game series. Advancing to the Eastern Conference finals for the first time in franchise history, the Heat were again defeated by the eventual champion Bulls. Riley was selected as Coach of the Year for the third time after leading Miami to a 61–21 regular season record and first place in the Atlantic Division.

The Heat lost to the archrival Knicks in the playoffs in 1998, 1999, and 2000. Riley then traded Brown and Jamal Mashburn in exchange for Eddie Jones in one trade and acquired Brian Grant in another, although the team suffered a major setback after Alonzo Mourning was lost for the season due to a kidney ailment. After finishing 50–32 in the 2000–01 season, the Heat were swept by the Charlotte Hornets in the first round of the NBA playoffs. The Heat then lost two of their best players when guard Tim Hardaway was traded to the Dallas Mavericks and Anthony Mason signed with the Milwaukee Bucks. In part because of these departures, the Heat crumbled to a 36–46 in 2002–the first time that a Riley-coached team had not had a winning season or made the playoffs. Riley was so disgusted with the Heat's performance that he declared he was about to "fire himself".

After the Heat finished the 2002–03 season 25–57, Riley stepped down as head coach and was succeeded by longtime assistant Stan Van Gundy. In July 2004, Riley traded Caron Butler, Brian Grant, Lamar Odom and a first-round draft pick to the Lakers for star center Shaquille O'Neal. Wade and O'Neal led the Heat to the Eastern Conference Finals during the 2005 playoffs, although they lost to the defending champions Detroit Pistons after leading the series 3–2.

During the 2005 off-season, it was widely speculated that Riley was attempting to push Van Gundy out and make himself head coach once again now that the team was a championship contender. Van Gundy resigned from his position just 21 games into the 2005-2006 season, citing a need to spend more time with his family. Riley named himself as Van Gundy's successor. Riley's Heat team defeated the Detroit Pistons in the 2006 Eastern Conference Finals on June 2, 2006, making it the first time the Miami Heat reached the finals. Riley's Heat squared off against the Dallas Mavericks in the 2006 NBA Finals. Despite losing the first two games to Dallas, the Heat rallied to win the next four games and their first NBA Championship. After Game Six, Riley commented that he had packed one suit, one shirt and one tie for the trip to Dallas. It was Riley's fifth championship as a head coach and his first with a team other than the Lakers.

Citing hip and knee problems, Riley took a leave of absence from coaching from January 3, 2007 through February 19, 2007. Assistant coach Ron Rothstein assumed interim duties. The Heat finished the season 44–38 and were swept out of the first round of the playoffs by the Chicago Bulls; the first defending champions to be swept in the first round since 1957. The following season, the Heat finished 15–67. The team had lost several of its players to extended injuries, and a disgruntled Shaquille O'Neal was traded mid-season. Two years after winning the championship, they finished with one of the worst seasons in NBA history. It also tied the Heat's inaugural season of 1988-89 as the worst in franchise history, and was easily the worst full-season record compiled by a Riley-coached team.

On April 28, 2008, Riley announced that he would step down as head coach, while remaining as team president. He named assistant Erik Spoelstra as head coach. Although the Heat have nominally had a general manager for most of Riley's tenure as team president (Randy Pfund until 2008, and Andy Elisburg since 2013), Riley has had the final say in basketball matters since his arrival in Miami.

In 2010, Riley acquired LeBron James and Chris Bosh to form the Heat's "Big Three" with Dwyane Wade. The Heat proceeded to reach the NBA Finals during each of the next four seasons (2011 through 2014). In 2012, the Heat beat the Oklahoma City Thunder to give Riley his first championship purely as an executive. The Heat repeated as champions in 2013, defeating the San Antonio Spurs.

In the 2019-2020 season, the Heat became the fourth team in NBA history to finish lower than fourth place in their conference in the regular season and make it to the NBA Finals. The 2019-20 Heat team has been considered by some to be Riley's "magnum opus", since the team's Finals run was not preceded by a dramatic rebuild or by the selection of a high draft pick. Before the season, Riley traded for Jimmy Butler, drafted Tyler Herro, and signed the undrafted Kendrick Nunn. Before the 2019-20 trade deadline, the Heat obtained Andre Iguodala and Jae Crowder. Facing Riley's former team, the Los Angeles Lakers (led by former Heat superstar LeBron James), the Heat were defeated in six games.

Outside basketball

Outside basketball, Riley has developed into a pop culture figure. This is born out of Riley's signature look, a slicked-back hairstyle, which is often described as gangster- or mafioso-like, and his immaculate tan. Riley's nickname is "The Godfather" because of his appearance.

In 1988, Riley published a book entitled Showtime: Inside the Lakers' Breakthrough Season, a New York Times best-seller which recapped the Lakers' successful run to the 1987 NBA Championship. One of the phrases Riley coined in the book was the "Disease of More", stating that "success is often the first step toward disaster" and that defending champions often fail the following season because every player who returns wants more playing time, more shots per game, and more money. The phrase stemmed from the Lakers' disappointing 1980–81 campaign coming off a championship the previous season.

In 1993, while coaching the New York Knicks, Riley published a second New York Times bestseller entitled The Winner Within: A Life Plan for Team Players. Aimed at a business leadership as well as basketball enthusiasts, it distilled a lesson in teamwork and leadership from each of Riley's seasons as a coach to that date. Byron Laursen, saluted by Riley as "...a true Showtime Warrior", co-authored both of Riley's books.

Riley is known for his friendship with Giorgio Armani, preferring to wear Armani suits during basketball games and modeling once at an Armani show.

Riley and his wife Chris have two children, James and Elisabeth. Riley is a practicing Roman Catholic.

On February 27, 2007, the Miami Heat were honored for their 2005–2006 NBA Championship at the White House. During the ceremony, Riley presented George W. Bush with a jersey before announcing, "I voted for the man. If you don't vote, you don't count." After the ceremony, Riley was questioned by reporters about the political nature of his comments. He responded by saying, "I'm pro-American, pro-democracy, I'm pro-government. I follow my boss. He's my boss."

Career statistics

NBA

Regular season

|+ NBA regular season statistics
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|San Diego
| 80 ||  || 15.8 || .379 ||  || .634 || 2.2 || 1.7 ||  ||  || 7.9
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|San Diego
| 56 ||  || 18.3 || .406 ||  || .672 || 2.0 || 2.4 ||  ||  || 8.8
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|San Diego
| 36 ||  || 13.2 || .417 ||  || .727 || 1.6 || 2.4 ||  ||  || 5.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| 54 ||  || 9.4 || .413 ||  || .644 || 1.0 || 1.3 ||  ||  || 4.9
|-
| style="text-align:left; background:#afe6ba;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| 67 ||  || 13.8 || .447 ||  || .743 || 1.9 || 1.1 ||  ||  || 6.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| 55 ||  || 14.6 || .428 ||  || .793 || 1.2 || 1.5 ||  ||  || 7.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| 72 ||  || 18.9 || .430 ||  || .764 || 1.8 || 2.1 || .8 || .0 || 9.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| 46 ||  || 22.1 || .419 ||  || .742 || 1.8 || 2.6 || .8 || .1 || 11.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| 2 ||  || 11.5 || .385 ||  || .333 || 1.5 || .0 || .5 || .5 || 5.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix
| 60 ||  || 13.2 || .389 ||  || .730 || .8 || 1.0 || .4 || .1 || 4.6
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 528 ||  || 15.5 || .414 ||  || .705 || 1.6 || 1.7 || .6 || .1 || 7.4

Playoffs

|+ NBA playoffs statistics
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|1969
| style="text-align:left;"|San Diego
| 5 ||  || 15.2 || .432 ||  || .833 || 2.2 || .4 ||  ||  || 7.4
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|1971
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| 7 ||  || 19.3 || .420 ||  || .727 || 2.1 || 2.0 ||  ||  || 9.4
|-
| style="text-align:left; background:#afe6ba;"|1972
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| 15 ||  || 16.3 || .333 ||  || .750 || 1.9 || .9 ||  || || 5.2
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|1973
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| 7 ||  || 7.6 || .333 ||  ||  || .7 || 1.0 ||  ||  || 2.6
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|1974
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| 5 ||  || 21.2 || .360 ||  || .750 || 1.2 || 2.0 || .8 || .0 || 7.8
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|1976
| style="text-align:left;"|Phoenix
| 5 ||  || 5.4 || .400 ||  || 1.000 || .0 || 1.0 || .0 || .0 || 2.6
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 44 ||  || 14.6 || .374 ||  || .763 || 1.5 || 1.2 || .4 || .0 || 5.7

College

|+ College statistics
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|1964–65
| style="text-align:left;"|Kentucky
| 25 ||  || 33.0 || .432 ||  || .618 || 8.5 || 1.1 ||  ||  || 15.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|1965–66
| style="text-align:left;"|Kentucky
| 29 ||  || 37.2 || .516 ||  || .699 || 8.9 || 2.2 ||  ||  || 22.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|1966–67
| style="text-align:left;"|Kentucky
| 26 ||  || 36.7 || .442 ||  || .782 || 7.7 || 2.6 ||  ||  || 17.4
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 80 ||  || 35.7 || .469 ||  || .714 || 8.4 || 2.0 ||  ||  || 18.3

Head coaching record

|- style="background:#FDE910;"
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 71||50||21|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Pacific||14||12||2||
| style="text-align:center;"|Won NBA Championship
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||58||24|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Pacific||15||8||7||
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in NBA Finals
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||54||28|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Pacific||21||14||7||
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in NBA Finals
|- style="background:#FDE910;"
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||62||20|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Pacific||19||15||4||
| style="text-align:center;"|Won NBA Championship
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||62||20|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Pacific||14||8||6||
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conference Finals
|- style="background:#FDE910;"
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||65||17|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Pacific||18||15||3||
| style="text-align:center;"|Won NBA Championship
|- style="background:#FDE910;"
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||62||20|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Pacific||25||15||9||
| style="text-align:center;"|Won NBA Championship
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||57||25|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Pacific||15||11||4||
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in NBA Finals
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||63||19|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Pacific||9||4||5||
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conference Semifinals
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|New York
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||51||31|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Atlantic||12||6||6||
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conference Semifinals
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|New York
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||60||22|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Atlantic||15||9||6||
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conference Finals
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|New York
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||57||25|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Atlantic||25||14||11||
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in NBA Finals
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|New York
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||55||27|||| style="text-align:center;"|2nd in Atlantic||11||6||5||
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conference Semifinals
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Miami
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||42||40|||| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Atlantic||3||0||3||
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Miami
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||61||21|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Atlantic||17||8||9||
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conference Finals
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Miami
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||55||27|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Atlantic||5||2||3||
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Miami
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 50||33||17|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Atlantic||5||2||3||
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Miami
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||52||30|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Atlantic||10||6||4||
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conference Semifinals
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Miami
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||50||32|||| style="text-align:center;"|2nd in Atlantic||3||0||3||
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Miami
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||36||46|||| style="text-align:center;"|6th in Atlantic||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Miami
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||25||57|||| style="text-align:center;"|7th in Atlantic||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|- style="background:#FDE910;"
| style="text-align:left;"|Miami
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 61||41||20|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Southeast||23||16||7||
| style="text-align:center;"|Won NBA Championship
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Miami
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||44||38|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Southeast||4||0||4||
| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|Miami
| style="text-align:left;"|
| 82||15||67|||| style="text-align:center;"|5th in Southeast||—||—||—||—
| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
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Awards and honors
 Ten-time NBA Champion (one as a player, one as an assistant coach, five as a head coach, and three as an executive)
 Three-time NBA Coach of the Year
 Nine-time NBA All-Star Game head coach
 2011 NBA Executive of the Year
 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (class of 2008)
 1966 First Team All-American
 2012 Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award
 Number 42 retired by the Kentucky Wildcats

See also

 List of NBA championship head coaches

References

Bibliography
 Heisler, Mark (1994). The Lives of Riley, Macmillan General Reference,

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DS TECHEETAH (, ) is a French-Chinese motor racing team under ownership of SECA - China Media Capital that competes in the electric racing series, Formula E.

Formula E

2016–17 season

The team entered the sport following the acquisition of Team Aguri in 2016. In July 2016, Jean-Éric Vergne and Qinghua Ma (who competed with Team Aguri in the final rounds of the previous season prior to CMC's takeover) were confirmed as the team's drivers. With Renault providing powertrains for Techeetah's debut season, Vergne scored the team's maiden podium with a second place at the Buenos Aires ePrix. In March 2017, Techeetah announced former F1 driver Esteban Gutiérrez would replace Ma from round four onwards. However, after Gutiérrez left the team after only three races after being given an opportunity with Dale Coyne Racing to compete in the IndyCar Series, the team then signed Stéphane Sarrazin to compete with the team for the remainder of the season.

The season proved to be successful, especially in the second half. The team scored seven overall podium finishes, five of them with Vergne, including his win in the second race in Montreal. Techeetah placed fifth in Teams' Championship with 156 points.

2017–18 season

Techeetah signed André Lotterer to partner Vergne for its second season in the series. Vergne was supremely consistent over the whole course of the season, finishing on points in every race, accumulating 198 points and winning the Drivers' Championship. The team got overtaken by Audi at the last second, missing out on Teams' Championship by only two points.

2018–19 season

Techeetah's line-up remained unchanged for the 2018–19 season. This time, they were able to win both championships in the final round in New York City. Lotterer subsequently left the team, switching to Porsche. In July 2018, Peugeot Sport with DS Automobiles-rebadged partnered with Techeetah and the team renamed to DS Techeetah. Techeetah also becomes a manufacturer team, which uses its own DS E-TENSE series powertrain.

2019–20 season
In September 2019, it was announced that António Félix da Costa would replace Lotterer in the team (as he had departed for the new Porsche Formula E Team). Vergne was set to continue with the team as he signed a long-term contract back in 2018. JEV did not participate in all FP1 sessions so far in his season, as he got a fever prior to the 2020 Marrakesh ePrix, thus he was replaced by James Rossiter driving his no. 25 Spark SRT05e for that session only. He later went on to complete the remaining races of the season. António Félix da Costa clinched the 2019/2020 title with two races to go (becoming the first FE driver to do so) at the six race showdown in Berlin following the season break due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He became the champion to have clinched the title with the most points to his nearest rival

2021-2022 
In the 2021-2022 season DS Techeetah was registered as a French team, though the ownership were still under SECA and China Media Capital.

Records 

DS TECHEETAH has earned various record results following the 2019/2020 season.

Team records 

 It's the first time a team get the most points on 5 consecutive races in a single season.
 It’s the first time that team has led with more than 64 points
First team to score a 1-2 finish (Santiago 2018)
 Second team to score all possible points in one race (Audi Sport Abt Schaeffler did previously in Berlin 2018)
 Second team to win it twice
 Second team to win it twice in a row
 Only team to have two champions
  First team to score 48pts in a single race
 5 poles in a row
 Only team to have two 1-2 finishes / Santiago 18 (with Renault) and Berlin 20 (with DS)
 Only team to win both championships twice
 Only team to win both championships back to back
 Third team to do 3 most consecutive wins for a team/manufacturer (shared with Audi and Renault)
 Only team to win Drivers and Teams championships before the last race (RD9 out of 11).
  Team with the largest lead to 2nd : 77 points
Season six saw the largest end of season gap in both Drivers (71 points) and Teams (77 points).

Driver records 
António Félix da Costa

 Is the only driver to win a race for three different Formula E teams.
 Is now the first driver to win the Formula E championship with two races remaining.
 Is the only driver to have won the championship with two races to go
 Is the driver with the largest lead to 2nd : 71 points
 3rd driver to do a hat-trick (Berlin RD 6 2020) shared with Sébastien Buemi and Daniel Abt
 3 consecutive pole positions in a single season
 3 consecutive wins (Season 6) shared with Sébastien Buemi
First driver to receive an Order of Merit as a result of winning a championship

About Antonio's 2019/2020 Formula E season

Wins: 4 (3 consecutive)

Podiums: 9 (7 consecutive)

Pole positions: 5 (consecutive)

Fastest in qualifying groups: 4

Lap lead: 174

Jean-Éric Vergne

 First back to back champion
 Only driver to win the championship twice 
 Only driver to have won the championship with one race to go

Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy
Techeetah became the first Formula E team to join the Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy support series, fielding one car for the inaugural 2018–19 season with Stefan Rzadzinski behind the wheel. The team competed under the name TWR Techeetah and was part of the Pro class. The eTrophy entry included an arrangement with Ryan Walkinshaw to return his late father Tom's TWR brand to international motorsport.

2018–19 season

A plain white livery was used during the first round in Ad Diriyah. Before the second round in Mexico City, a retro Silk Cut-based livery was introduced, which has been in use ever since. Rzadzinski's deal with the team came to end before the Berlin ePrix. Former Panasonic Jaguar Racing driver and 2008–09 A1GP champion Adam Carroll was announced as his replacement. The team, however, completely withdrew from the following round held in New York City.

The team's best result came at the Paris ePrix, where Rzadzinski finished second. For the majority of the season, the TWR Techeetah team was consistently behind the likes of Jaguar Brazil Racing and Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, whose drivers were regularly competing for wins. It was also the only team in the Pro class to not win a race during the season.

Results

Formula E

Notes
  – Driver was fastest in group qualifying stage and was given one championship point.
 † – Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy

Notes
 † – Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Footnotes

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Chinese auto racing teams
Auto racing teams established in 2016
Formula E teams
2016 establishments in China
Sports teams in Shanghai Sonic Motor Racing Services is an Australian racing team that is competes in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship, Porsche Sprint Challenge, the Australian Formula Ford Championship, and the Victorian Formula Ford Championship. The team was formed by Michael Ritter, son of long time touring car racer Graham Ritter and brother of V8 Supercar racer Greg Ritter. Ritter formed the team in 1998 to compete in the Australian Formula Ford Championship. The team used Van Diemen chassis' for the first decade of their existence, which brought them championship victories in the Australian Formula Ford Championship in 2001, 2002, and 2004.

Formula Ford

The team was formed to run the Davison family, beginning in the 1998 Australian Formula Ford Championship with Alex Davison. Alex would run with the team for the 1998 & 1999 seasons before going overseas and handing the ride to younger brother Will Davison. Will would win the title in 2001 for the team, now entered under the Garry Rogers Motorsport banner. Sonic would go back to back winning the 2002 championship with GRM protégé Jamie Whincup. The team would win their first championship under their own name in 2004 with David Reynolds. Sonic would expand to 3 cars in 2006, running future supercars drivers Tim Blanchard and Tim Slade, who would finish second in the championship as well as Todd Fiore. For 2007 the team would switch to Mygale Chassis' and Blanchard would win the championship, James Moffat would finish third for the team. Sonic would run Nick Percat under the Walkinshaw racing name in the 2007, 2008, & 2009 series. He would win the series in 2009, this being the most dominant season in the history of the series. Percat would win a record 12 races in a season, as well as a record 9 races in a row.

In 2010 the team expanded to 4 cars, including one for future supercars driver Cameron Waters. Waters would win the series in 2011. Garry Jacobson would also drive for the team in 2011 and 2012. Anton DePasquale would debut with the team in 2012 and sweep the final round of the series at Winton. He would go full time with the team in 2013 alongside Simon Hodge. in 2016 Leanne Tander would win the series for Sonic, with Max Vidau 8th. Sonic would again become back to back champions in 2017, with Max Vidau winning the series. Future Super 2 driver Angelo Mouzouris would make his debut with the team, Hamish Ribarits would also make his first start in 2017. In 2018 Sonic Motor Racing Services would win their third championship in a row, with Hunter McElrea winning the series from Ribarits who had remained with the team. Mouzouris would finish 6th. Sonic would become the first team to win 4 back to back championships, Angelo Mouzouris would win the series in 2019. Jay Hanson would also make his full time debut with the team in 2019. With the return of a national championship in 2021, Sonic would field entries for 3rd year driver Harrison Goodman and debutant Valentino Astuti.

Carrera Cup Australia 

The team also ran Australian Carrera Cup and won the championship in 2007 giving David Reynolds his second national title. The team ran programs in the Porsche Drivers Challenge, steering Sven Burchartz to win the 2007 Porsche Drivers Challenge, then backing it up winning the 2008 Porsche GT3 Challenge that succeeded it. Sonic would not return to the national series until 2014 fielding cars for Nick McBride, Nick Foster, and Adrian Mastronardo. This lineup would return for 2015 with foster winning the championship. Ash Walsh would replace Foster for 2016. The team would enter Jordan Love and Andre Heimgartner for 2017 alongside long time driver Nick McBride with Heimgartner finishing runner up in the championship. They would step up to 5 cars for the 2018 season running Peter Major, Michael Almond, and Dale Wood alongside Love in the Pro class with a 5th entry for Graham Williams in the Pro-Am class. Sonic scaled back to 4 full time cars for 2019 with Thomas Maxwell joining Almond, Love, and Wood. Aaron love would join the team for the final round in Surfers Paradise. Jordan Love won the teams 2nd championship For the shortened 2020 season the team would continue with Love, Almond, and Wood joined by rookie Max Vidau. The team would scale down to 3 cars for the 2021 season, running Almond, Aaron Love, & Simon Fallon.

Supercars Development Series 
For the 2009 season the team acquired a pair of Ford Falcons from Triple Eight Race Engineering to run for James Moffat and Bryce Washington. Washington left the team after the second round of the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series. The team have subsequently secured a wildcard entry for the 2009 L&H 500 and 2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, although they then did not use the entry after Washington left the team mid-season.

References

External links 
 Sonic Motor Racing Services website

Supercars Championship teams
Australian auto racing teams
Sports teams in Victoria (Australia)