Randall C. Pfund''The Sporting News: 1992-93 Official NBA Register'' St. Louis, Missouri: The Sporting News Publishing Co. 1992. (born December 29, 1951) is an American former

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(NBA) head coach and executive. He was an assistant coach for the

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under

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and Mike Dunleavy, and was the team's head coach during the

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and 1993–94 seasons, although he was let go near the end of his second season, being replaced for the remainder of the year by

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. He was the

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for the

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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. Pfund played college basketball at

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, where he amassed a cumulative scoring average of well over double figures, averaging nearly 25 points per game in his senior season. His father,

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, pitched for the

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in 1945 and was his college coach at Wheaton.

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1951 births Living people American men's basketball players Basketball coaches from Illinois Basketball players from Illinois High school basketball coaches in the United States Los Angeles Lakers assistant coaches Los Angeles Lakers head coaches Miami Heat executives National Basketball Association general managers Sportspeople from Miami Beach, Florida Sportspeople from Oak Park, Illinois Sportspeople from Wheaton, Illinois Wheaton Thunder men's basketball players {{1950s-US-basketball-bio-stub