Index4INDEX Card 297: Pat Riley 1

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Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

-- Pat Riley

For more about Pat Riley, keep reading....

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A scorer can't score unless fed the object by another player. Without a defense, a team will give up points like they're going out of style. Without a coaching staff, the team won't play as effectively as it should even if it wins games.

Many milestones in a player's career involve team accomplishments such as first-ever playoff appearance or a division title or a league championship. Some milestones for a player are personal, yet even those require teamwork from teammates: offensive records for scoring, assists, rebounds, scoring percentage, etc.; defensive records for points prevented or players stopped; game records such as winning streaks or statistical streaks.

Whatever accomplishments a player has don't take place in a vacuum. They're made possible by the efforts of all players and staff members involved.

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Some Information about Pat Riley

Patrick James Riley was born in Rome, New York, US on 1945-March-20.

Pat Riley is currently team president of the Miami Heat franchise of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is best known head coach of the star-studded "Showtime" Los Angeles Lakers teams of the 1980s, a time when the NBA was rising from the brink of irrelevancy and collapse on the North American sports landscape. He has won NBA championships as a player, an assistant coach, a head coach, and a team executive. He had also coached the New York Knicks-- as opposite of the "Showtime" Lakers as any team could get-- to the NBA Finals in 1994, thus validating his coaching abilities.

Riley was an athletic young man, playing both basketball and pigskin football as a youth. He played college football under legendary head coach Adolph Rupp at the University of Kentucky. In 1966 he led the team to the NCAA Championship game; it was won by Texas Western University (no known as UTEP, the University of Texas at El Paso). In 1967 he was drafted by two legues: in the NBA, he was a first round draft pick of the San Diego Rockets.; in the National Football League (NFL), he was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys. He was playing for the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1971-1972 season when he won his first NBA Championship (and only one as a player).

Riley retired from playing in 1976, and he stayed with the Lakers as a broadcaster. In 1979 he became an assistant coach for Lakers head coach Paul Westhead. Due to conflict between Westhead and young star player Magic Johnson, Riley replaced Westhead as head coach during the 1981-1982 season. His first season as a head coach ended with an NBA Championship, his third in total. Riley coached the Lakers for most of the 1980s, during which time they won the NBA Championship in 1982, 1985, 1987, and 1988. During the 1980s the championship bounced between the Lakers and the Boston Celtics (led by coach/executive Red Auerbach and player Larry Bird). It was during this time when Riley earned his reputation as a cunning and smooth operator thanks to his slicked back hair and expensive suits.

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