Tony Fiorentino (born 1949) is an American television

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, most recently for the

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.Tony Fiorentino
Fox Sports Florida. December 4, 2010. Retrieved on September 24, 2011. Fiorentino has been involved with the Heat organization since it entered the

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, joining the team in 1988 as an assistant coach under

Ron Rothstein Ronald L. Rothstein (born December 27, 1942) is an American former professional basketball coach and college basketball player, who has led many different National Basketball Association, NBA teams. He served as the first head coach for the Miam ...

. He also served as an assistant coach for the Heat under

Alvin Gentry Alvin Harris Gentry (born November 5, 1954) is an American professional basketball coach. A former college basketball player, Gentry has led six different NBA teams. He served as an interim head coach for the Miami Heat at the end of the 1994– ...

and

Pat Riley Patrick James Riley (born March 20, 1945) is an American professional basketball executive, former coach, and former player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been the team president of the Miami Heat since 1995, and he also se ...

, and later served as an assistant coach with the Heat's WNBA sister team, the

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. He became the Heat's main television color commentator in 2004, replacing

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. On June 9, 2017, The

announced that Fiorentino would call his 15th and final season as the team's television analyst."Longtime Miami Heat TV analyst Fiorentino to call final season in 2017-18".
''Miai Herald''. June 9, 2017. On April 11, 2018, Fiorentino was honored in a halftime ceremony during the final regular season game against the

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. Fiorentino remains with the team, serving as both a

Ambassador and as the Director for the franchise's very popular summer basketball camp program. Fiorentino played college basketball at Concordia College in

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. He then coached high school basketball at

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, where he got to know rival coach

, a relationship which later helped him get an assistant coaching position for Rothstein on the Heat. He also had a stint as a college assistant at

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fiorentino, Tony Living people Basketball coaches from New York (state) College men's basketball players in the United States Concordia College (New York) alumni High school basketball coaches in the United States Iona Gaels men's basketball coaches Miami Heat assistant coaches Miami Sol coaches Miami Heat announcers American men's basketball players 1949 births