Pat Williams was raised in Wilmington, Delaware, earned his bachelors degree at Wake Forest University, and his master's degree at Indiana University. He has a doctorate in Humane Letters from Flagler University and is currently working on a doctorate in sports administration from Walden University. He is a member of the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame after catching for the Deacons baseball team, including the 1962 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship team.
 
He spent seven years in the Philadelphia Phillies' organization, two as a player and five in the front office.
 
Since 1968 he has been affiliated with National Basketball Association teams in Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, including the 1983 World Champion 76ers, and now the Orlando Magic which he co-founded in 1987 and helped lead to the NBA finals in 1995. Nineteen of his teams have gone to the NBA play-offs and five of them have made the NBA finals. In 1996 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 three NBA Draft lotteries, including back-to-back winners in 1992 and 1993. He also drafted Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal, and he signed Billy Cunningham, Chuck Daly and Matt Guokas to their first Professional Coaching contracts.
 
Pat and his wife Ruth are the parents of 19 children, including 14 adopted from four nations, ranging in age from 11-25.
 
Pat and his family have been featured in Sports Illustrated, Readers Digest, Good Housekeeping, The Wall Street Journal, Focus on the Family, New Man Magazine, plus CBS, NBC, ABC, ESPN, CNN, CBN and the Maury Povich Show.
 
In the last two years he has run six Marathons, including the Boston Marathon twice 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 and Fergie Jenkins.
 
He is the author of 15 books, the most recent being Go for the Magic, a motivational book about Walt Disney's five secrets of success. I am told that this book is a million-seller -- Pat has a million of them in his garage, and he sells them to anyone who wants to help him put his kids through college.

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