Pat Knight
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"Patrick "Pat" Knight" is a scout for the Indiana Pacers professional basketball team in the National Basketball Association. Knight assumed his current position on July 1, 2014, and is the Pacers' college scout for the West Coast Region.

Formerly, he was an American college basketball coach. He became the coach of the Lamar Cardinals men's basketball/Lamar Cardinals basketball team on April 5, 2011, but was fired on February 16, 2014. He was previously the head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball/Texas Tech Red Raiders men's basketball team until March 7, 2011. Prior to that, he served in other coaching, administrative and scouting capacities with United States Basketball League, International Basketball Association, National Collegiate Athletic Association/NCAA, National Basketball Association/NBA, and Continental Basketball Association/CBA teams. Knight is the son of Basketball Hall of Fame member Bob Knight, and replaced his father as Texas Tech's List of Texas Tech Red Raiders head men's basketball coaches/13th head coach on February 4, 2008.

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I'm at a point where probably in the next couple of years I'm gonna go coach football. It's something I enjoy. I don't need a paycheck for it.

[Texas Tech athletic director] Gerald Myers called me in and said they didn't want me to leave, they wanted me to be the next coach.

We just watched it again on tape. You can tell they were trying to foul him, but they're not getting a really good hold of him. It's a judgment call. Fortunately, it went our way.

I'm hoping he could go three or four more.

It shows that we can play in tight game, instead of getting buried. But we still need to be able to win on the road.

I know he wants the record for sure, after that I don't know.

My job is to prolong his career. I hope he has a lot of good years left, especially with the recruits we have coming in.

It's truly an honor to carry on my dad's legacy here at Texas Tech.