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The Miami Heat’s Pat Riley statue will be given to the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Miami Heat’s Pat Riley statue will be given to the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Los Angeles Lakers have commissioned a statue of former player and coach Pat Riley, the team announced Monday. The new statue will be placed in Star Plaza outside the Crypto.com Arena. Riley, the current team president of the Miami Heat, played for the Los Angeles Lakers from 1970 to 1975 and then coached the team from 1981 to 1990, helping the franchise win six championships in the process. After spending a season working for NBC, Riley came out of retirement to coach the New York Knicks until 1995 when he became president and head coach of the Miami Heat. Riley has been exclusively associated with the Heat for a nearly three decades at this point, but maybe the Lakers finally got around to watching Winning TimeArtest would be a step or two down from Tyson on the fame ladder, though he could pose different threats to the 27-year-old Paul than did Tyson. Artest is 45 years old, stands at 6-feet, 7-inches tall and weighs 260 pounds, which would provide him with significant reach and weight advantages over Paul (6-feet, 1-inch and 227 pounds). Of course, Artest has no formal boxing experience. However, he was an integral part of the infamous “Malice at the Palace” brawl back in 2004, generally regarded as the biggest and most catastrophic fight in NBA history.

 

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