Coach Pat Riley: Satin Steel, 1995

[In late April 1995, the popular Long Island newspaper Newsday asked the provocative, but timely, question: Do the Knicks Really Need Pat Riley? That would be Coach Pat Riley. That would be the classy, Armani suit-wearing, former helmsman of 1980s Showtime Lakers. That would be the NBA’s brilliant master motivator who arrived in Manhattan in late 1991 w…