The Miami HEAT announced today that Stan Van Gundy has resigned as Head Coach due to personal and family reasons. HEAT President Pat Riley will assume head coaching duties immediately. Van Gundy will remain with the HEAT as an NBA free agent evaluator, while also assisting the team in other projects.

Van Gundy became the fifth head coach in franchise history when he took over the reigns from Riley on October 24, 2003. He has guided Miami to two postseason berths, a Southeast Division championship, 112 regular season wins and 17 postseason victories. The 17 postseason victories rank third in the NBA over the two-year period and the 112 regular season wins stand as the fifth highest mark in the league.

Additionally, in each of his two years as a head coach, he has guided the HEAT to a 17-win improvement over the previous season, making him only the second coach in NBA history to lead his team to at least 15-win improvements in consecutive years.

In his two-plus seasons, Van Gundy has guided two different rosters and led each of those teams to at least the conference semifinals, only the third and fourth times in franchise history that the HEAT has advanced to the second round of the NBA Playoffs and the first time it has been accomplished in consecutive years. Last season he took the HEAT a step further, guiding Miami to the Eastern Conference Finals for only the second time in the team?s history and came within several minutes of reaching the finals. His .607 postseason winning percentage ranks 10th on the NBA?s all-time list. Van Gundy?s 17 postseason wins rank second on Miami?s all-time list, one behind Riley, and both his postseason and regular season (.605) winning percentages rank first in HEAT history. He has also guided Miami to its only two four-game postseason sweeps, eliminating both New Jersey and Washington in four games during the magical 2005 postseason run. The eight consecutive postseason victories established a franchise record.