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Lenny Wilkens
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American basketball player and coach (1937–2025)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1937-10-28 ) October 28, 1937, New York City , New York, U.S.
- Died
- November 9, 2025 (2025-11-09) (aged 88), Medina, Washington , U.S.
- Listed height
- 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
- Listed weight
- 180 lb (82 kg)
- High school
- Boys (Brooklyn, New York)
- College
- Providence (1957–1960)
- Nba draft
- 1960 : 1st round, 6th overall pick
- Drafted by
- St. Louis Hawks
- Playing career
- 1960–1975
- Position
- Point guard
- Number
- 32, 15, 14, 19, 17
- Coaching career
- 1969–2005
- 1960 1968
- St. Louis Hawks
- 1968 1972
- Seattle SuperSonics
- 1972 1974
- Cleveland Cavaliers
- 1974 1975
- Portland Trail Blazers
- 1969 1972
- Seattle SuperSonics
- 1974 1976
- Portland Trail Blazers
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Nationality
- United States
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- Medina
- Occupation
- basketball coach
- Educated at
- Providence College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Sport
- basketball
- Position played
- point guard
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 82
- Image
- Lenny Wilkens 1968.jpeg
- Height
- 185
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- date of birth
- 1937-10-28
- Commons category
- Lenny Wilkens
- drafted by
- Atlanta Hawks
- member of
- Alpha Phi Alpha
- end of work period
- 1975-00-00
- start of work period
- 1960-00-00
- date of death
- 2025-11-09
- name in native language
- Lenny Wilkens
- birth name
- Leonard Randolph Wilkens
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Encyclopedic overview
Leonard Randolph Wilkens (October 28, 1937 – November 9, 2025) was an American professional basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been inducted three times into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, first in 1989 as a player, as a coach in 1998, and in 2010 as part of the 1992 United States Olympic "Dream Team" for which he was an assistant coach. In 1996, Wilkens was named to the NBA 50th Anniversary Team, and in 2021 he was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. In addition, in 2022 he was also named to the list of the 15 Greatest Coaches in NBA History, being the only person to be in both NBA 75th anniversary lists as a player and as a coach. He is also a 2006 inductee into the College Basketball Hall of Fame.
Wilkens made a combined 13 NBA All-Star Game appearances as a player (nine times) and as a head coach (four times), was the 1994 NBA Coach of the Year, won the 1979 NBA championship as the head coach of the Seattle SuperSonics, and was the head coach of the Olympic gold medal–winning 1996 U.S. men's basketball team.
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