Ahead of the Game – The Pat Williams Story basketball Hall-of-Famer
Program Titles
- Walt Disney’s Five Secrets to Success
- Teamwork: Building a Strong, Diverse
- Seven Keys to Leadership
- Marketing Your Dreams
- Finding the Will to Win
- Coaching Your Kids to Be Leaders
- Paradox of Power
- The Magic of Teamwork
Pat Williams, one of America’s top motivational, inspirational, and humorous speakers, he has addressed employees from many of the Fortune 500 companies.
After serving for seven years in the United States Army, Pat spent seven years in the Philadelphia Phillies organization, two as a minor league catcher and five in the front office.
He then spent three years in the Minnesota Twins organization before moving to the National Basketball Association.
He has been affiliated with teams in Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, including World Champion 76ers, and now the Orlando Magic which he co-founded and helped lead to the NBA finals.
Twenty-three of his teams have gone to the NBA play-offs and five of them have made the NBA finals.
Pat was named as one of the 50 most influential people in NBA history by a national publication.
In his NBA career, he has traded Pete Maravich, traded for Julius Erving, Moses Malone, Penny Hardaway, and won four NBA draft lotteries, including back-to-back winners. He also drafted Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal, Maurice Cheeks, Andrew Toney and Darryl Dawkins and signed Billy Cunningham, Chuck Daly, and Matt Guokas to their first professional coaching contracts. Twelve of his former players have become NBA Head Coaches and seventeen have become assistant coaches.
He has completed 32 marathons, including the Boston Marathon 10 times and also climbed Mt. Rainier. He is a weight lifter, Civil War buff, and serious baseball fan. Every winter he plays in Major League Fantasy Camps and has caught Hall of Famers Bob Feller, Bob Gibson, Fergie Jenkins, Rollie Fingers, Gaylord Perry, Phil Niekro and Tom Seaver.
He has a doctorate in Humane Letters. He is a member of the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame after catching for the Deacons baseball team, including the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship team. He is a member of the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame. He is widely recognized throughout the sports world as a consummate promoter and astute talent scout. His zany antics and endless imagination have inspired the Magic’s phenomenal success from their very first NBA season. No other general manager in professional sports has both wrestled a bear and traded Pistol Pete Maravich. While Williams enjoys a widespread reputation in world wide sporting circles, many consider him to be one of this country’s premier motivational and humorous speakers.
Books by Pat Williams
- Ahead of the Game – The Pat Williams Story
- Go for the Magic
- Making Magic
- Who Wants to Be a Champion
- Warrior Within
- Forever Young
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