US EditionNBA Legend Lenny Wilkens, Former Player and Coach for the Trail Blazers, Dies at 88
- On Sunday, Lenny Wilkens died at his home in Seattle at age 88, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver confirmed.
- Wilkens built a Hall of Fame résumé as a nine-time All-Star and the first coach to reach 1,000 wins, retiring with a 1,332-1,155 record over 32 regular seasons and leading Seattle SuperSonics to their only NBA championship.
- He coached a record 2,487 games, earned three Hall of Fame inductions, and led U.S. Olympic teams to gold at the Atlanta Games.
- Wilkens is survived by his wife Marilyn, children Leesha, Randy and Jamee, and seven grandchildren, but the Wilkens family has not released a cause of death.
- He remained an ambassador in Seattle for more than 50 years, with Seattle honoring him by renaming a street Lenny Wilkens Way and unveiling a statue outside Climate Pledge Arena last year.
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PC legend and NBA hall of famer Lenny Wilkens passes away at 88
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — Providence College is mourning the loss of a Friars hoops legend. 1950s PC basketball star Lenny Wilkens passed away Sunday night at the age of 88. He was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach, only the second person to receive the dual honor. He coached the Seattle SuperSonics, Portland Trail Blazers and Cleveland Cavaliers among others. The 1992 Olympic Dream Team staffed Wilkens as an as…
The stature of Lenny Wilkens in American basketball and the NBA was such that he appeared up to three times in the Naismith Hall of Fame, the olympus of discipline. The historic player and coach died this Sunday at 88 years old in Medina (Washington), just outside the city of Seattle that climbed until his first and only ring of the NBA in 1979 with the beloved and longed-for SuperSonics.
Great sadness in the world of basketball: With Lenny Wilkens the coach with most games died as an NBA coach at the age of 88! He was responsible for a total of 2487 games. 46 years ago he led the team of the then franchise Seattle SuperSonics to the championship title. At the Olympic Games he won with the Dream Team of the USA as assistant (1992) and as head coach (1996) the gold medal.
Lenny Wilkens has died. The NBA legend was 88 years old. “He was one of basketball’s most respected ambassadors,” said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver.
Former American basketball player and coach Lenny Wilkens died at the age of 89.
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