Personal information | |
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Born | (1951-12-29)December 29, 1951 (age 73) Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. |
Listed height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
Listed weight | 180 lb (82 kg) |
Career information | |
High school | Wheaton North (Wheaton, Illinois) |
College | Wheaton (Illinois) (1970–1974) |
Coaching career | 1974–1994 |
Career history | |
As coach: | |
1974–1977 | Glenbard South HS (assistant) |
1977–1985 | Westmont (assistant) |
1985–1992 | Los Angeles Lakers (assistant) |
1992–1994 | Los Angeles Lakers |
Career highlights and awards | |
As assistant coach:
As Executive: | |
Randall C. Pfund[1] (born December 29, 1951)[1] is an American formerNational Basketball Association (NBA) head coach and executive. He was an assistant coach for theLos Angeles Lakers underPat Riley andMike Dunleavy, and was the team's head coach during the1992–93 and1993–94 seasons, although he was let go near the end of his second season, being replaced for the remainder of the year byMagic Johnson.
He was thegeneral manager for theMiami Heat from 1995 until September 29, 2008. However, he served mostly in an advisory role to Riley, who as team president (and also head coach from 1995 to 2003 and from 2005 to 2008) had the final say in basketball matters.[2]
Pfund played college basketball atWheaton College, where he amassed a cumulative scoring averaged double figures, averaging nearly 25 points per game in his senior season.[1]
His father,Lee Pfund, pitched for theBrooklyn Dodgers in 1945 and was his college coach at Wheaton.[1]
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