Inside the Remarkable Legacy and Untold Stories of NBA Legend Lenny Wilkens, Who Passed Away at 88

Inside the Remarkable Legacy and Untold Stories of NBA Legend Lenny Wilkens, Who Passed Away at 88
“I love Lenny,” Tommy Davis, a three-time All-Star with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Wilkens’ high school teammate, told Sports Illustrated’s Frank Deford in 1969, when the Sonics made Wilkens the NBA’s only Black head coach. “He is a man and a true friend who can be depended upon, but it is not only that he is steadfast and honorable. I love Lenny for what he has achieved. He went in there with all those big guys and proved to them that he could do it — for nine years — on quickness and guts and dedication.

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