| Lenny Wilkens AKA Leonard Randolph Wilkens Born: 28-Oct-1937
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Basketball Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Winningest coach in NBA history Also coached the 1996 Olympic basketball "Dream Team."
Father: (chauffeur, d., perforated ulcer)
Mother: Henrietta Cross Wilkens (candy-factory worker)
Sister: Connie
Brother: (younger)
Wife: Marilyn
Son: Randy
High School: Boys High School, Brooklyn, NY (1956)
University: Providence College (1960)
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
Academy of Achievement (1999)
NBA Coach of the Year 1993/94
NBA Top 50 Players 1996
Basketball Hall of Fame (player) 9-May-1989
Basketball Hall of Fame (coach) 2-Oct-1998
Irish Ancestry Maternal
SPORTS FRANCHISE HISTORY
Seattle SuperSonics 1968-69
Seattle SuperSonics player/coach 1969-72
Cleveland Cavaliers 1972-74
Portland Trail Blazers player/coach 1974-75
Portland Trail Blazers coach 1975-76
Seattle SuperSonics coach 1977-85
Cleveland Cavaliers coach 1986-93
Toronto Raptors coach 2000-03
New York Knicks coach 2004-05
Author of books:
Unguarded: My Forty Years Surviving in the NBA (2000, memoir, with Terry Pluto)
Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.
Do you know something we don't?
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile
Copyright ©2008 Soylent Communications
| 
