Martin Riley (basketball)
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| Born | April 23, 1954 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | |||||||||||
| Listed height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | |||||||||||
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| High school | Sisler High School (Winnipeg, Manitoba) | |||||||||||
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| Position | Point guard | |||||||||||
| Number | 5 | |||||||||||
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| 1980-81 | River Plate (Argentina) | |||||||||||
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| 1981-1984 | University of Manitoba | |||||||||||
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Martin James Riley (born May 8, 1955) is a former Canadian basketball player and Olympian. Riley has been described as “one of the finest basketball players to emerge out of the province of Manitoba”.
Riley played for the Canadian men's national basketball team from 1973 to 1980. Riley made the national team when he was 17 years old, being the first player to make the national team immediately out of high school and being one of the only 17-year-olds in history to make the Canadian national basketball team. Riley was later named the captain of the 1980 Olympic team.
Riley also had a successful career at the University of Manitoba. He was the CIAU Player of the Year in the 1975–76 season, a three-time First-team All-Canadian (1976-1978), Manitoba's athlete of the year (1976) a CIAU national tournament champion (1976), CIAU tournament MVP (1976) and Great Plains Athletic Conference player of the year (1978), among other accomplishments.