Legendary Coach Lenny Wilkens Passes at 88: The Untold Legacy Behind Basketball’s Quiet Giant
Wilkens led the U.S. on an 8-0 run to gold at the Atlanta Games, each win by at least 22 points.
The roster included returning Olympians — Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, Scottie Pippen, Mitch Richmond, David Robinson and John Stockton — as well as first-time Olympians Penny Hardaway, Grant Hill, Reggie Miller, Shaquille O’Neal, Hakeem Olajuwon and Gary Payton.
“By the end of the Olympics, I felt just like Chuck Daly had in 1992: I was relieved it was over, relieved we won, and very proud of how the players held up under the pressure,” Wilkens wrote. “I was happy that we won my way, by playing all the guys, playing different lineups every game, and we still won big. But with some people, we couldn’t win: If we beat a team by only 20 points, then we were flat and just going through the motions; if we won by 40 or 50 points, we were pouring it on. I thought the media criticism we got early in the Olympics was unfair; they kept putting us up against the 1992 team, and there was no way we’d ever win that comparison.”
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