Legendary Coach Lenny Wilkens Passes at 88: The Untold Legacy Behind Basketball’s Quiet Giant
Lenny Wilkens, whose Hall of Fame basketball career as a player and coach included being the head coach of the 1996 U.S. Olympic men’s team, has died at age 88.
Wilkens was a coach for the first two U.S. Olympic teams to include NBA players in 1992 (one of Chuck Daly’s three assistants) and 1996 (head coach at the Atlanta Games).
“Lenny Wilkens represented the very best of the NBA — as a Hall of Fame player, Hall of Fame coach, and one of the game’s most respected ambassadors,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. “So much so that, four years ago, Lenny received the unique distinction of being named one of the league’s 75 greatest players and 15 greatest coaches of all time.
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