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Wilkens made a combined 13-time NBA All-Star Game appearances as a player (nine times) and as a head coach (four times), was the 1993 NBA Coach of the Year, won the 1979 NBA championship as the head coach of the Seattle SuperSonics, and an Olympic gold medal as the head coach of the 1996 U.S. men's basketball team.
Sep 13, 2021 · A Hall of Famer as both an NBA player and an NBA coach, Lenny Wilkens was a 9-time All-Star and 1 of the best guards of the 1960s. Wilkens reached another milestone on March 1, 1996...
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Lenny Wilkens holds the rare distinction of having coached all the teams that he performed with in his 15 seasons as an NBA player – the Seattle Supersonics, Portland Trailblazers, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Atlanta Hawks.
Lenny Wilkens is an American professional basketball player and coach who is considered one of the game’s most accomplished playmaking guards and who won 1,332 games, the second most in the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA), behind only Don Nelson.
Apr 11, 2022 · Archive 75: Lenny Wilkens. A Hall of Fame player, Lenny Wilkens later became one of the NBA's all-time winningest coaches and lead Seattle to an NBA title in 1978.
Apr 11, 2022 · Lenny Wilkens went on to become one of the greatest coaches in NBA history, doing so with the same characteristics — poise, intellect, thoughtfulness, calculation — that made him...
Fans of the late 1960s and mid-1970s remember Lenny Wilkens as a tenacious, hot-shooting guard who averaged double figures in 14 of 15 NBA seasons.
Lenny Wilkens. Leonard Randolph Wilkens (Len) Born: October 28, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York. High School: Boys in Brooklyn, New York College: Providence. Hall of Fame: Inducted as Player in 1989 and Coach in 1998 . As Player: 1077 G, 16.5 PPG, 4.7 RPG, 6.7 APG (Full Record)
Aug 7, 2023 · Wilkens, the first NBA coach to record 1,000 victories, has been inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame three times – as a player, head coach, and assistant coach of the 1992 U.S. Olympic "Dream Team." Born in Brooklyn.
