Claim: Pat Riley played in the National Basketball Association.

Patrick James Riley -LRB- born March 20 , 1945 -RRB- is an American professional basketball executive , and a former coach and player in the National Basketball Association -LRB- NBA -RRB- . He has been the team president of the Miami Heat since 1995 and head coach in two separate tenures -LRB- 1995 through 2003 , and 2005 through 2008 -RRB- . Regarded as one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time , Riley has served as the head coach of five championship teams , four with the Los Angeles Lakers and one with the Heat .   He was named NBA Coach of the Year three times -LRB- 1989 -- 90 , 1992 -- 93 and 1996 -- 97 , as head coach of the Lakers , New York Knicks and Heat , respectively -RRB- . He was head coach of an NBA All-Star Game team nine times : eight times with the Western Conference team -LRB- 1982 , 1983 , 1985 -- 1990 , all as head coach of the Lakers -RRB- and once with the Eastern team -LRB- 1993 , as head coach of the Knicks -RRB- . In 1996 , he was named one of the 10 Greatest Coaches in the NBA history . As a player , he played for the Lakers ' championship team in 1972 . Riley most recently won the 2012 and 2013 NBA championships with the Heat as their team president . He is the first North American sports figure to win a championship as a player , coach -LRB- both assistant and head -RRB- , and executive . He received the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award from the NBA Coaches Association on June 20 , 2012 .