Pat Williams, Orlando Magic Sr Vice President
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Episode 276
Pat Williams is a sports treasure. He's spent 51 years in the NBA as an executive and is currently the Senior Vice President of the Orlando Magic. He and his wife Ruth are the parents of 19 children, including 14 adopted children and 17 grandchildren.
Pat is a cancer survivor after being diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma in 2011 and being given 2 years to live. In 2012, Pat received the John W. Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
He's also an author, having written 110 books including his latest "Character Carved in Stone."
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Pat about his latest book, having Coach K - Mike Krzyzewski write the forward, how the leadership principles in the book parallel the teachings of Jesus, the story of starting the first NBA Chapel in 1978, and the greatest lesson he's learned in his 50+ years of working in sports.
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| 0:44.7 | guest, who is the senior vice president and the founder of the Orlando Magic. His name is |
| 0:51.2 | Pat Williams, and Pat has lived an extraordinary life, serving in the U.S. Army for |
| 0:57.0 | seven years, starting his professional sports career in the minor leagues at the age of 24, |
| 1:03.0 | and becoming the president of the Spartanburg, South Carolina, Philly's minor league baseball team, |
| 1:08.4 | and then moving to the NBA in 1968 and has been in the NBA now for 50 years |
| 1:14.5 | in various positions including general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers in the late 70s into |
| 1:20.9 | the mid 80s when they won that NBA championship in 1983 with Dr. Jay and Moses Malone and those guys |
| 1:27.4 | and then again founded the Orlando |
| 1:29.8 | Magic. In 1989, the Magic made their debut in the NBA and they've been going strong and Pat has |
| 1:36.4 | been a part of the franchise ever since. But here's the extraordinary part of Pat Williams' life. |
| 1:42.3 | The man, along with his wife, Ruth, are parents of 19 children, |
| 1:48.3 | including 14 adopted children. That's a lot of children. 17 grandchildren. And here's another |
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