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NBA Playoffs 1994

The Life of Riley

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
July/August 1995

July 2, 1995 by Leave a Comment

Pat Riley's record says it all. Four National Basketball Association championships, two Coach of the Year awards, and the best overall winning percentage (756-299) of any coach in NBA history. In the 1980s, his Los Angeles Lakers won four NBA titles -- two of them back-to-back, a feat never achieved by any other team -- and made all the more sweet by the fact that they … [Read more...] about The Life of Riley

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