Rick Carlisle

Rick Preston Carlisle ( KAR-lyle; born October 27, 1959) is an American basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has previously served as head coach of the Detroit Pistons and Dallas Mavericks, winning the 2011 NBA Finals with the latter. As a player, Carlisle played for the Boston Celtics, New York Knicks, and New Jersey Nets. He is one of only 14 people to win an NBA championship as both a player and a coach, and is one of only 11 head coaches in NBA history to win 1,000 games.

Playing career Carlisle was raised in Lisbon, New York. He attended and played basketball at Lisbon Central High School and was the first 1,000-point scorer in school history. One of the only NCAA Division I coaches to recruit him was Jim Larrañaga, an assistant coach at America International. However, Carlisle "couldn't face spending four years in downtown Springfield," Massachusetts and chose instead to attend a year of prep school at Worcester Academy. Carlisle played two years of college basketball at the University of Maine from 1979 to 1981, during which time he reconnected with Larrañaga at the Empire State Games. Larrañaga had since become an assistant coach at the University of Virginia. Carlisle transferred from Maine to Virginia after two seasons. He was a starter for the 1982–83 Virginia Cavaliers team that featured the three-time college player of the year Ralph Sampson. UVA was the number one ranked team in the country prior to being defeated by Chaminade on December 23, 1982. In the 1983 NCAA tournament, UVA was the number one seed in the West and made it to the Elite Eight before losing to eventual NCAA national champion North Carolina State. Carlisle was the co-captain on the 1983–84 Cavali