<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Pat Riley knows the numbers. Five NBA championships as a coach. Third all-time on the regular-season wins list, with 1,208. Second all-time in playoff victories with 171. So he knows why he's a finalist for the Hall of Fame, a near lock to be named Monday when the Class of 2008 is announced. That doesn't mean the Heat coach thinks he deserves it. ''I look at it this way: I don't belong there,'' Riley said before Miami played host to the New Orleans Hornets on Wednesday night. ``I really believe in the coaching profession and what the word coach means, and the gentlemen that are in -- all the gentlemen that are in that Hall of Fame as coaches -- [I know] why they are deserving, and why I don't belong, but why I'm there.'' Why he'll be there: those numbers, which include four championships with the Lakers and one with the Heat, along with a 1,208-689 regular-season record (.637 winning percentage) after Wednesday's loss. But to Riley, there's a lot missing from his career. ''I never coached a [Catholic Youth Organization] team,'' he said. ``I never hauled a group of wannabes in the back of a truck to Central Park and worked them out from dawn to dusk. I never took a kid home in my car and treated his athlete's [foot] in my house when I was in high school. I never did the 8 million hours of work that a student-manager/assistant coach did. I never did any of that stuff.</div> Miami Herald
