Pat Williams, Orlando Magic Sr Vice President
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Episode 95
Pat Williams has lived an extraordinary life.
His professional sports career began back in 1962 in minor league baseball. In 1968, he started what is now a 50-year journey in the NBA. He's had stops in Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta, back to Philadelphia and in 1987, founded the Orlando Magic basketball club that began play in the NBA in 1989.
Pat's life off the field is even more incredible. He and his wife Ruth are the parents of 19 children, including 14 adopted children and 17 grandchildren.
He's also the author of 108 books (yes you read that right) including his latest, Coach Wooden's Forgotten Teams.
On this episode of the podcast, we take you on a journey through the amazing life of Pat Williams. He talks about how he accepted Christ during his time in Minor League Baseball, how his NBA career started, why it was important to him to start an NBA Chapel, the time he met the legendary John Wooden, why he started the Orlando Magic, and how his faith has sustained him in his battle with cancer.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports collide. |
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| 0:11.9 | Welcome everyone to the show, episode number 95 right here on the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:17.9 | My name's Jason Romano. |
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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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