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Larry O’Brien: A Perennial NBA Champion  

By Ray Cavanaugh

IA Newsletter, Month Day 2026

June 19, 2026 by Leave a Comment

When someone mentions the NBA Finals, you might think of Jordan or Kobe slashing their way to the rim. Or, more recently, the video game-like exploits of three-point assassin Steph Curry. You're less likely to think of a sub-6-foot, visually-impaired, cigarette-smoking Irish-American political operative. And yet these supreme athletes were indeed pouring their sweat and souls … [Read more...] about Larry O’Brien: A Perennial NBA Champion  

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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