Question: The former head coach of the team that finished 11th place in the NBA's Western Conference in the 2011-12 season is now the head coach for which NBA team?
Context: Ricardo Maurice Patton (born October 23, 1958) is an American college basketball coach and the former head men's basketball coach at Northern Illinois University.  On March 9, 2011, NIU announced that Patton would not return as their head coach for the 2011–12 season, it is unclear whether he resigned or was fired.  Prior to this, he was the head coach at the University of Colorado.  He was hired as head coach for the Buffaloes on March 5, 1996, just days before the Big Eight Conference Tournament.  Patton guided the Buffaloes to six postseason appearances.  On July 11, 2011 it was announced that Patton joined the University of Maryland Eastern Shore as an assistant coach. The Miami Heat is an American professional basketball team based in Miami.  The team was launched in 1988 and played in the 1988–89 season of the National Basketball Association.  The next season they moved from the Western Conference to the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference.  After a mainly mediocre performance in the first few seasons, there were extensive team changes in 1995 and 1996 under head coach Pat Riley, including the recruitment of Isaac Austin and P.J. Brown.  They reached the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in 1996–97.  They did not reach this level again until 2004–05, under new head coach Stan Van Gundy and with Dwyane Wade as a leading team member.  At this time they transferred to the Southeast Division.  The next year the team won the NBA Finals, defeating the Dallas Mavericks.  The head coach position was next taken by Erik Spoelstra.  Their next successful season was 2010–11, when they reached the NBA Finals again, losing to the Mavericks.  Acquiring LeBron James as a player, they won the Finals in both 2012 and 2013, and won 27 successive games in February–March 2013.  In 2013–14 they reached the Finals again but lost to San Antonio Spurs.  James left the team in July 2014, and the 2014–15 season was less successful. Charlton Young (born August 15, 1971) is an American college basketball assistant coach at Florida State and the former head coach of the Georgia Southern University Eagles men's basketball team, located in Statesboro, Georgia.  He was the head coach of the Eagles from 2009-2013 and was the twelfth coach in the history of the program, replacing Jeff Price.  The Eagles were collectively and individually successful during his four seasons as the head coach at the Statesboro, Ga., school.  He led the Eagles to a second place finish in the Southern Conference standings in 2012 as the team earned the second-best turnaround in league history.  For his efforts he was honored as the Southern Conference Coach of the Year by multiple publications (including rushthecourt.net) and was a finalist for the Ben Jobe Award which is presented annually to the top Division I minority head coach.  Young coached four All-Southern Conference selections including Willie Powers (all-conference third team in 2010) and Eric Ferguson (all-conference first team in 2013, all-conference first-team and All-Southern Conference Tournament team in 2012 and the All-Freshman team in 2011).  The selections of Powers and Ferguson to the all-conference team in 2013 marked the first time since 2007 that multiple Georgia Southern players had earned all-conference accolades in the same season.  In 2013, he led the Eagles to a victory over Virginia Tech for the first win in program history over a team from the ACC. The 2012 Weber State Wildcats football team represented Weber State University in the 2012 NCAA Division I FCS football season.  In December 2011, John L. Smith was hired to be the new head coach.  That all changed on April 23, 2012.  On April 23, John L. Smith was offered a one-year contract to be the new head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks, so he left Weber State to take the position after being head coach for roughly 3 1/2 months.  On April 26, Weber State announced that Jody Sears would serve as interim head coach for the 2012 season in addition to the defensive coordinator spot he was hired for earlier in April.  Weber State played their home games at Stewart Stadium.  They are a member of the Big Sky Conference.  They finished the season 2–9, 2–6 in Big Sky play to finish in a tie for 11th place. The 2011 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 2010–11 season, and the conclusion of the season's playoffs.  The Western Conference champion Dallas Mavericks defeated the Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat 4 games to 2 to win their first NBA championship.  Dallas became the last NBA team from Texas to win its first title, after the Houston Rockets won back-to-back titles in and , and the San Antonio Spurs won four NBA championships in , , and , and a fifth one subsequently in ; all three Texas NBA teams have now won at least one NBA championship.  It was also the first time in four years that the Los Angeles Lakers did not make the Finals, having been swept in the Western Conference semifinals by the eventual champion Dallas Mavericks. The 2011–12 Portland Trail Blazers season was the 42nd season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA).  Due to the 2011 NBA lockout the regular season was shortened to 66 games.  The Trail Blazers finished the season in 11th place in the Western Conference with a 28–38 record.  It was the last season with head coach Nate McMillan, who was fired on March and with starting shooting guard Brandon Roy, who announced his retirement.  The Trail Blazers also parted ways with their number one pick from the 2007 NBA draft Greg Oden after an injury-marred short career with the team. The 2011–12 season was Derby County's 106th season in the Football League and their 113th overall in league football.  It was their fourth consecutive season in the second tier following the previous campaign and their 44th overall.  Derby started the season well, winning their first 4 league games in August, which was also club's best league start since the 1905–06 season.  However, the club were knocked out of the first round of League Cup against League Two opposition for the third season in a row against Shrewsbury Town.  Derby maintained their top 2 position in September, with the main highlight being a 2–1 win at local rivals Nottingham Forest, despite the fact that goalkeeper Frank Fielding gave away a penalty and was sent off after 67 seconds, Jeff Hendrick's winner in the game was his first goal in senior football.  October and November were disappointing with Derby picking up only 1 win and 5 points out of a possible 30 as Derby fell to 15th place in the league, with a 4–0 defeat at rivals Leicester City at the start of the month, starting the slump in form.  In mid-October, Nigel Clough and his backroom staff signed new 3 1/2-year contracts.  Derby picked up form in December and January, losing only twice in 9 games, picking up 17 points as Derby ended the month 12th peaking at 8th in mid-January.  February was another disappointing month, where they picked up on 1 point, scoring no goals with them club suffering their 2nd 4–0 defeat of the season to the hands of Southampton by the end of the month, Derby were 15th in the table.  From the start of April to mid march, Derby picked up 14 points out a possible 21 which lifted Derby to 11th in the table, 5 points off the play-offs with 4 games remaining, Derby manager Nigel Clough however ruled out a play-off place, wishing there was more the 4 games left as the club were showing great form.  However defeats to Middlesbrough and Cardiff City in 4 days ended the Derby's play-off chances.  Derby finished the season 12th in the league, 11 points off the play-off players, with Nigel Clough being satisfied with the performances of the team, stating a lack of firepower as the reason why they fell short and a target to improve in 2012–13.  Derby ended the season with a win and a draw as they finished in 12th place on 64 points, 7 places and 15 points better off than the previous season, the club's first top half finish since promotion in 2007 and best league standing since relegation in 2008. Phillip Reginald "Reggie" Witherspoon (born February 21, 1961) is the head coach of the Canisius College men's basketball team and the former head coach of the University at Buffalo men's college basketball team.  He was fired after the 2012-13 season.  He was the head coach at Erie Community College, and head coach and assistant coach at Sweet Home High School before he was hired as the interim head coach at Buffalo in December 1999.  Witherspoon was named full-time head coach on March 10, 2000.  He was the first African American named head coach of a varsity sports team in any Western New York suburban school district.  Witherspoon served one season as an assistant at Alabama under head coach Anthony Grant.  In 2015, Witherspoon was let go by Alabama when Grant was replaced by Avery Johnson.  He was subsequently named as an assistant on Matt McCall's staff at UT-Chattanooga. The 1973–74 Seattle SuperSonics season was the 7th season of the Seattle SuperSonics in the National Basketball Association (NBA).  Following the resignation of Lenny Wilkens as a head coach after the 1971–72 season and a poor campaign in the 1972–73 season that saw the departure of general manager Bob Houbregs, the Sonics hired Boston Celtics' stalwart Bill Russell as head coach and general manager.  With Russell at the helm, the team finished in 6th place in the Western Conference with a 36–46 record.  The Sonics' home court, Seattle Center Coliseum, was the venue for the 1974 NBA All-Star Game. Nathaniel McMillan (born August 3, 1964) is an American basketball coach and former player who is currently the head coach for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).  He coached the Seattle SuperSonics from 2000 to 2005, and the Portland Trail Blazers from 2005 to 2012.
Answer: Indiana Pacers