Randall C. Pfund''The Sporting News: 1992-93 Official NBA Register''

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: 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 1992–93 and 1993–94 seasons. He was fired 64 games into his second season and eventually replaced by

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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 Wheaton College, where he averaged nearly 25 points per game in his senior season. His father, Lee Pfund, pitched for the

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in 1945 and was his college coach at Wheaton.

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