Former Orlando Magic VP Pat Williams on the NBA Draft, Jesus as a leader and creating an NBA Chapel

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Pat Williams is a member of the Basketball Hall-of-Fame and co-founder of the NBA’s Orlando Magic. The author of over 100 books, Pat is a former NBA General Manager with the Atlanta Hawks and Philadelphia 76ers and help Philly to an NBA title in 1983.

His latest book “Revolutionary Leadership: Lessons from men and women of the Revolution War” is available now.

Today on the podcast, we talk to Pat about his time with the Orlando Magic, winning the draft lottery in 1992 and 1993, how the Revolutionary War provides many leadership lessons for us, why he started the first NBA Chapel back in the 1980's, meeting John Wooden and how Pat's faith in Jesus has guided him throughout his life.

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0:00.0	Today's episode on Sports Spectrum is presented by the Sports Spectrum podcast network in our brand new podcast produced by Sports Spectrum.
0:10.2	It's called Inside the Chapel, hosted by Denver Broncos team chaplain Reza Zaday and Houston Rockets MBA chaplain Icky Soma.
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1:39.5	This is Sports Spectrum, the intersection of sports and faith, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation.
1:40.7	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
1:43.1	Welcome to today's show, everyone. I am Jason Romano. Welcome to today's show, everyone.
1:44.9	I am Jason Romano.
1:46.0	This is the Sports Spectrum podcast, bringing Jesus back into the sports conversation.
1:51.5	We're so glad that you're tuning into our show today.
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