Lenny Wilkens Basketball H O F - 07 mai 2021 Leonard Randolph Wilkens (born October 28, 1937) is an American former 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. He is also a 2006 inductee into the College Basketball Hall of Fame.
As player:
1960-1968 St. Louis Hawks
1968-1972 Seattle SuperSonics
1972-1974 Cleveland Cavaliers
1974-1975 Portland Trail Blazers
As coach:
1969-1972 Seattle SuperSonics
1974-1976 Portland Trail Blazers
1977-1985 Seattle SuperSonics
1986-1993 Cleveland Cavaliers
1993-2000 Atlanta Hawks
2000-2003 Toronto Raptors
2004-2005 New York Knicks
Career highlights and awards
As player:
9× NBA All-Star (1963-1965, 1967-1971, 1973)
NBA All-Star Game MVP (1971)
NBA assists leader (1970)
NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team
No. 19 retired by Seattle SuperSonics
Consensus second-team All-American (1960)
As coach:
NBA champion (1979)
NBA Coach of the Year (1994)
4× NBA All-Star Game head coach (1979, 1980, 1989, 1994)
Top 10 Coaches in NBA History
Sent him 2 photos on 26 Apr and got them back signed on 7 May. He also included a buisiness card for his foundation.
Mr Lenny Wilkens
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