Lenny Wilkens

Lenny Wilkens

Wilkens in 1968
Personal information
Born	(1937-10-28) October 28, 1937 Brooklyn, New York
Nationality	American
Listed height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Listed weight	180 lb (82 kg)
Career information
High school	Boys (Brooklyn, New York)
College	Providence (1957–1960)
NBA draft	1960 / Round: 1 / Pick: 6th overall
Selected by the St. Louis Hawks
Pro career	1960–1975
Position	Point guard
Number	32, 15, 14, 19, 17
Coaching career	1969–2005
Career history
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'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 Gold medal winner at the Olympic Games (1996)
Career statistics
Points	17,772 (16.5 ppg)
Rebounds	5,030 (4.7 rpg)
Assists	7,211 (6.7 apg)
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Basketball Hall of Fame as player
Basketball Hall of Fame as coach
College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006

Leonard Randolph "Lenny" Wilkens (born October 28, 1937) is an American retired 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 as part of the 1992 United States Olympic "Dream Team", for which he was an assistant coach. From the 1994–95 season until the 2009–10 season, Wilkens was the winningest coach in NBA history and retired still holding the record at 1,332 victories. Wilkens is now second on the list behind Don Nelson. He won the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award for the 2010-11 NBA season.^[1]

Early life

Wilkens grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.^[2] His father was African American and his mother was Irish American.^[3] Wilkens was raised in the Roman Catholic faith.^[3]

At Boys High School, Wilkens was a basketball teammate of longtime Major League Baseball star Tommy Davis.

Playing career

Wilkens was a two-time All-American (1959 and 1960) at Providence College. He led the team to their first NIT appearance in 1959, and to the NIT finals in 1960. When he graduated, Wilkens was, with 1,193 points, the second-ranked scorer in Friar history (he has since dropped to twentieth as of 2005). In 1996, Wilkens' No. 14 jersey was retired by the college, the first alumnus to receive such an honor. In honor of his collegiate accomplishments, Wilkens was one of the inaugural inductees into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.

Wilkens was drafted sixth overall by the St. Louis Hawks in the 1960 NBA Draft. He began his career with eight seasons with the St. Louis Hawks, who lost the finals to the Boston Celtics in his rookie season. The Hawks made the playoffs consistently with Wilkens but never again reached the finals. Wilkens placed second to Wilt Chamberlain in the 1967–1968 MVP balloting, his last with the Hawks.

Wilkens was traded to Seattle for Walt Hazzard and spent four seasons there. Wilkens averaged 22.4 points, 6.2 rebounds, and 8.2 assists per game in his first season for the SuperSonics, and was an All-Star in three of his seasons for them. Wilkens was named head coach prior to his second season for the SuperSonics. Although the SuperSonics did not reach the playoffs while Wilkens simultaneously coached and started at point guard, their record improved each season and they won 47 games during the 1971–72 NBA season. Wilkens was dealt to the Cleveland Cavaliers before the start of the next season in a highly unpopular trade, and the SuperSonics fell to 26-56 without his leadership on the court.^[4]

Wilkens ended his career spending two seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers (1972–1974) and one with the Portland Trail Blazers (1974–1975).

Wilkens was a nine-time NBA All-Star, and was named the 1971 NBA All-Star Game MVP in 1971. With Seattle, he led the league in assists in the 1969–70 season, and at the time of his retirement, Wilkens was the NBA's second all-time leading playmaker (assists), behind only Oscar Robertson. He scored 17,772 points during the regular season.

Coaching career

From 1969–1972 with Seattle, and in his one season as a player with Portland, he was a player-coach. He retired from playing in 1975 and was the full-time coach of the Trail Blazers for one more season. After a season off from coaching, he again became coach of the SuperSonics when he replaced Bob Hopkins who was fired 22 games into the 1977–1978 season after a dismal 5-17 start. The SuperSonics won 11 of their first 12 games under Wilkens, made the playoffs, and ultimately reached the 1978 NBA Finals before losing in seven games to the Washington Bullets.

He coached in Seattle for eight seasons (1977–1985), winning his (and Seattle's) only NBA Championship in 1979. He would go on to coach Cleveland (1986–1993), Atlanta (1993–2000), Toronto (2000–2003) and New York (2004–2005).

The Hall of Famer was named head coach of the New York Knicks on January 15, 2004. After the Knicks' slow start to the 2004–2005 season, Wilkens resigned from the team on January 22, 2005.

Accomplishments

• During the 1994-95 season Wilkens won his 939th career game, surpassing Red Auerbach's record.^[5] He was the first coach to record 1,000 career victories and retired with a 1,332-1,155 won-loss record. As noted above, his record was surpassed by Don Nelson in 2009-10.
• He coached the Olympic Champion Men's Basketball team in 1996 and was an assistant coach on the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team ("The Dream Team").
• Wilkens is one of four players to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach (the other three being John Wooden, Tom Heinsohn and Bill Sharman), joining the Hall in 1989 as a player and 1998 as a coach. He was inducted for a third time in 2010 as a member of the 1992 "Dream Team" (assistant coach).
• In 1996, the NBA named Wilkens one of its 50 Greatest Players and 10 Greatest Coaches; Wilkens is the only person named to both lists. He is also a member of the Providence College Athletic Hall of Fame.
• In 1994 Coach Wilkens was presented the United States Sports Academy's Amos Alonzo Stagg Coaching Award for his outstanding achievements as a coach.

Later years

On November 29, 2006 he was hired as vice chairman of the Seattle SuperSonics' ownership group,^[6] and was later named the Sonics' President of Basketball Operations on April 27, 2007.^[7] On July 6, 2007 Wilkens resigned from the Sonics organization. Wilkens currently is seen on Northwest FSN Studio as a College Hoops analyst and occasionally appears on College Hoops Northwest at game nights. He is the founder of the Lenny Wilkens Foundation for Children.^[8]

Quotes

• "I learned my basketball on the playgrounds of Brooklyn. Today, being a playground player is an insult. It means all you want to do is go one-on-one, it means your fundamentals stink and you don't understand the game. But the playgrounds I knew were tremendous training grounds."
• "Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up."^[9]

Head coaching record

Team	Year	Regular Season				Post Season
		Won	Lost	Win %	Finish	Won	Lost	Win %	Result
SEA	1969–70	36	46	.439	5th in Western Division
SEA	1970–71	38	44	.463	4th in Pacific Division
SEA	1971–72	47	35	.573	3rd in Pacific Division
POR	1974–75	38	44	.463	3rd in Pacific Division
POR	1975–76	37	45	.451	5th in Pacific Division
SEA	1977–78	42	18	.700	3rd in Pacific Division	13	9	.591	NBA Finals
SEA	1978–79	52	30	.634	1st in Pacific Division	12	5	.706	NBA Championship
SEA	1979–80	56	26	.683	2nd in Pacific Division	7	8	.467	Conf. Finals
SEA	1980–81	34	48	.415	6th in Pacific Division
SEA	1981–82	52	30	.634	2nd in Pacific Division	3	5	.375	Conf. Semifinals
SEA	1982–83	48	34	.585	3rd in Pacific Division	0	2	.000	1st round
SEA	1983–84	42	40	.512	3rd in Pacific Division	2	3	.400	1st round
SEA	1984–85	31	51	.378	5th in Pacific Division
CLE	1986–87	31	51	.378	4th in Central Division
CLE	1987–88	42	40	.512	4th in Central Division	2	3	.400	1st round
CLE	1988–89	57	25	.695	2nd in Central Division	2	3	.400	1st round
CLE	1989–90	42	40	.512	4th in Central Division	2	3	.400	1st round
CLE	1990–91	33	49	.402	6th in Central Division
CLE	1991–92	57	25	.695	2nd in Central Division	9	8	.529	Conf. Finals
CLE	1992–93	54	28	.659	2nd in Central Division	3	6	.333	Conf. Semifinals
ATL	1993–94	57	25	.695	1st in Central Division	5	6	.455	Conf. Semifinals
ATL	1994–95	42	40	.512	5th in Central Division	0	3	.000	1st round
ATL	1995–96	46	36	.561	4th in Central Division	4	6	.400	Conf. Semifinals
ATL	1996–97	56	26	.683	2nd in Central Division	4	6	.400	Conf. Semifinals
ATL	1997–98	50	32	.610	4th in Central Division	1	3	.250	1st round
ATL	1998–99	31	19	.620	2nd in Central Division	3	6	.333	Conf. Semifinals
ATL	1999–00	28	54	.341	7th in Central Division
TOR	2000–01	47	35	.573	2nd in Central Division	6	6	.500	Conf. Semifinals
TOR	2001–02	42	40	.512	3rd in Central Division	2	3	.400	1st round
TOR	2002–03	24	58	.293	7th in Central Division
NYK	2003–04	23	19	.548	3rd in Atlantic Division	0	4	.000	1st round
NYK	2004–05	17	22	.436	5th in Atlantic Division
32 seasons		1332	1155	.536	-	80	98	.449	-

Source: Lenny Wilkens Coaching Record – Basketball-Reference.com

See also

• List of National Basketball Association career free throw scoring leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career assists leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career minutes played leaders
• List of National Basketball Association players with most assists in a game

References

External links

• Lenny Wilkens (as a player) at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
• Lenny Wilkens (as a coach) at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
• Basketball-Reference.com: Lenny Wilkens (as a player)
• Basketball-Reference.com: Lenny Wilkens (as a coach)

Oklahoma City Thunder head coaches Al Bianchi (1967–1969) Lenny Wilkens (1969–1972) Tom Nissalke (1972–1973) Bucky Buckwalter # (1973) Bill Russell (1973–1977) Bob Hopkins (1977) Lenny Wilkens (1977–1985) Bernie Bickerstaff (1985–1990) K. C. Jones (1990–1992) Bob Kloppenburg # (1992) George Karl (1992–1998) Paul Westphal (1998–2000) Nate McMillan (2000–2005) Bob Weiss (2005–2006) Bob Hill (2006–2007) P. J. Carlesimo (2007–2008) Scott Brooks (2008–2015) Billy Donovan (2015- ) Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Portland Trail Blazers head coaches Rolland Todd (1970–1972) Stu Inman # (1972) Jack McCloskey (1972–1974) Lenny Wilkens (1974–1976) Jack Ramsay (1976–1986) Mike Schuler (1986–1988) Rick Adelman (1988–1994) P. J. Carlesimo (1994–1997) Mike Dunleavy, Sr. (1997–2001) Mo Cheeks (2001–2005) Kevin Pritchard # (2005) Nate McMillan (2005–2012) Kaleb Canales # (2012) Terry Stotts (2012– ) Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Atlanta Hawks head coaches Roger Potter (1949) Red Auerbach (1949–1950) Dave MacMillan (1950) Johnny Logan # (1950) Mike Todorovich (1950–1951) Doxie Moore (1951–1952) Andrew Levane (1952–1954) Red Holzman (1954–1957) Slater Martin # (1957) Alex Hannum (1957–1958) Andy Phillip (1958) Ed Macauley (1958–1960) Paul Seymour (1960–1961) Andrew Levane (1961–1962) Bob Pettit (1962) Harry Gallatin (1962–1964) Richie Guerin (1964–1972) Cotton Fitzsimmons (1972–1976) Bumper Tormohlen # (1976) Hubie Brown (1976–1981) Mike Fratello # (1981) Kevin Loughery (1981–1984) Mike Fratello (1984–1990) Bob Weiss (1990–1993) Lenny Wilkens (1993–2000) Lon Kruger (2000–2002) Terry Stotts (2002–2004) Mike Woodson (2004–2010) Larry Drew (2010–2013) Mike Budenholzer (2013– ) Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Cleveland Cavaliers head coaches Bill Fitch (1970–1979) Stan Albeck (1979–1980) Bill Musselman (1980–1981) Don Delaney # (1981) Bob Kloppenburg # (1981) Chuck Daly (1981–1982) Bill Musselman (1982) Tom Nissalke (1982–1984) George Karl (1984–1986) Gene Littles # (1986) Lenny Wilkens (1986–1993) Mike Fratello (1993–1999) Randy Wittman (1999–2001) John Lucas II (2001–2003) Keith Smart # (2003) Paul Silas (2003–2005) Brendan Malone # (2005) Mike Brown (2005–2010) Byron Scott (2010–2013) Mike Brown (2013–2014) David Blatt (2014– ) Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Toronto Raptors head coaches Brendan Malone (1995–1996) Darrell Walker (1996–1998) Butch Carter (1998–2000) Lenny Wilkens (2000–2003) Kevin O'Neill (2003–2004) Sam Mitchell (2004–2008) Jay Triano (2008–2011) Dwane Casey (2011– )

New York Knicks head coaches Neil Cohalan (1946–1947) Joe Lapchick (1947–1956) Vince Boryla (1956–1958) Andrew Levane (1958–1959) Carl Braun (1959–1961) Eddie Donovan (1961–1965) Harry Gallatin (1965) Dick McGuire (1965–1967) Red Holzman (1967–1977) Willis Reed (1977–1978) Red Holzman (1978–1982) Hubie Brown (1982–1986) Bob Hill (1986–1987) Rick Pitino (1987–1989) Stu Jackson (1989–1990) John MacLeod (1990–1991) Pat Riley (1991–1995) Don Nelson (1995–1996) Jeff Van Gundy (1996–2001) Don Chaney (2001–2004) Herb Williams # (2004) Lenny Wilkens (2004–2005) Herb Williams # (2005) Larry Brown (2005–2006) Isiah Thomas (2006–2008) Mike D'Antoni (2008–2012) Mike Woodson (2012–2014) Derek Fisher (2014–present) Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

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Jones Lenny Wilkens Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 1998 Players Larry Bird Marques Haynes Arnie Risen Coach Jody Conradt Alex Hannum Aleksandar Nikolić Lenny Wilkens Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Based in Springfield, Massachusetts Members   Coaches (98) Alexeeva Allen Anderson Auerbach Auriemma Barmore Barry Blood Boeheim Brown Calhoun Calipari Cann Carlson Carnesecca Carnevale Carril Case Chancellor Chaney Conradt Crum Daly Dean Díaz-Miguel Diddle Drake Ferrándiz Gaines Gamba Gardner Gaze Gill Gomelsky Gunter Hannum Harshman Haskins Hatchell Heinsohn Hickey Hobson Holzman Hurley Iba Jackson Julian Keaney Keogan Knight Krzyzewski Kundla Lambert Leonard Lewis Litwack Loeffler Lonborg Magee McCutchan A. McGuire F. McGuire Meanwell Meyer Miller Moore Nelson Nikolić Novosel Olson Pitino Ramsay Richardson Riley Rubini Rupp Rush Sachs Sharman Shelton Sloan Smith Stringer Summitt Tarkanian Taylor Teague Thompson VanDerveer Wade Watts Wilkens G. Williams R. 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