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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
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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,

External links

 

1945 births
Living people
All-American college men's basketball players
American men's basketball coaches
American men's basketball players
Basketball coaches from New York (state)
Basketball players at the 1966 NCAA University Division Final Four
Basketball players from New York (state)
Catholics from New York (state)
Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball players
Los Angeles Lakers assistant coaches
Los Angeles Lakers announcers
Los Angeles Lakers head coaches
Los Angeles Lakers players
Miami Heat executives
Miami Heat head coaches
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees
National Basketball Association broadcasters
National Basketball Association championship-winning head coaches
National Basketball Association general managers
National Basketball Association team presidents
New York Knicks head coaches
Phoenix Suns players
Portland Trail Blazers expansion draft picks
San Diego Rockets draft picks
San Diego Rockets players
Shooting guards
Small forwards
Sportspeople from Rome, New York
Sportspeople from Schenectady, New York
The 2001 Major League Soccer SuperDraft was held on February 5, 2001 at the Signature Grand in Davie, Florida.

Player selection
Any player whose name is marked with an * was contracted under the Project-40 program.

Round 1

Round 1 trades

Round 2

Round 2 trades

Round 3

Round 3 trades

Round 4

Round 4 trades

Round 5

Round 5 trades

Round 6

Round 6 trades

Unresolved 2001 SuperDraft Trades
18 February 1999: Chicago Fire traded Zak Ibsen to Los Angeles Galaxy for 2001 second-round pick 
24 February 1999, Colorado acquired GK Ian Feuer from New England Revolution in exchange for future considerations . It is unclear whether this trade was fulfilled through a 2001 first-round pick (#6), a 2001 second-round pick (#18), or why New England gave up draft picks to unload a player. 
2 August 1999, Tampa Bay Mutiny traded defender Sam George, midfielder Paul Dougherty, and a conditional draft choice to Chicago Fire in exchange for defender Richie Kotschau and midfielder Manny Lagos. The draft pick may be 2001 pick #20.

References 

Major League Soccer drafts
Mls Superdraft, 2001 The 1989 Baltimore Orioles season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Orioles finishing 2nd in the American League East with a record of 87 wins and 75 losses.  The team was known as the Comeback Kids as they rebounded from the 54 wins and 107 losses of the 1988 season. The season also took on the "Why Not?!" promotional slogan as the team's pursuit of the pennant went down to the final series of the regular season. The Orioles went into the three-game season finale against the first place Toronto Blue Jays down by one game in the AL East standings and needing either a sweep to win the AL East championship, or two wins to force a one-game playoff.  The Blue Jays won the first two games of the series, clinching first place on the penultimate game of the season.

Offseason
 October 3, 1988: Don Aase was released by the Orioles.
 November 9, 1988: Pete Blohm (minors) was traded by the Orioles to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Randy Milligan.
 November 17, 1988: Dickie Noles was released by the Orioles.
 December 4, 1988: Eddie Murray was traded by the Orioles to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Ken Howell, Brian Holton, and Juan Bell.
 December 8, 1988: Ken Howell and Gordon Dillard were traded by the Orioles to the Philadelphia Phillies for Phil Bradley.
 March 1, 1989: Mark Huismann was signed as a free agent by the Orioles.
 March 31, 1989: Carl Nichols was traded by the Orioles to the Houston Astros for Dave Johnson and Victor Hithe (minors).

Regular season
Bill Ripken's 1989 Fleer Baseball Card (#616) made national news when it included a hidden obscenity (the words "fuck face"). The obscenity was printed in black marker on the knob of his bat. Once the discovery was made public, subsequent printings of the card were issued with the words obscured. The first obscuring involved a blob of white out, another was scribbled with a black pen while the last was covered with a black square.
In the finale of the 1989 season, Ben McDonald tossed one scoreless inning of relief, logging his first career win. Of note, he would become the sixth player to make the majors in the same season that he was selected as the number one overall pick in the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft.

Opening Day starters
 Brady Anderson
 Phil Bradley
 Steve Finley
 Rene Gonzales
 Cal Ripken, Jr.
 Dave Schmidt
 Larry Sheets
 Mickey Tettleton
 Jim Traber
 Craig Worthington

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions
 May 19, 1989: Rick Schu was purchased from the Orioles by the Detroit Tigers.
 June 1, 1989: John Posey (minors) was traded by the Orioles to the Philadelphia Phillies for Shane Turner.
 June 5, 1989: 1989 Major League Baseball Draft
Ben McDonald was drafted by the Orioles in the 1st round (1st pick). Player signed August 19, 1989.
Mike Oquist was drafted by the Orioles in the 13th round. Player signed June 14, 1989.
Gregg Zaun was drafted by the Orioles in the 17th round. Player signed August 25, 1989.
 July 20, 1989: John Habyan was traded by the Orioles to the New York Yankees for Stan Jefferson.
 July 28, 1989: Brian Dubois was traded by the Orioles to the Detroit Tigers for Keith Moreland.
 August 5, 1989: Jamie Quirk was signed as a free agent by the Orioles.

Roster

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position
Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In

Other batters

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Other pitchers

Relief pitchers

Awards and honors
 Frank Robinson, Associated Press Manager of the Year
 Frank Robinson, American League Manager of the Year
 Gregg Olson, American League Rookie of the Year
MLB All-Star Game
 Cal Ripken, Jr.

Farm system

References

1989 Baltimore Orioles team page at Baseball Reference
1989 Baltimore Orioles season at baseball-almanac.com

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