Lenny Wilkens

Leonard Randolph "Lenny" Wilkens is a retired American basketball player and coach in the NBA. He has been inducted three times into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, first in 1989 as a player, as a coach in 1998, and as part of the US Olympic "The Dream Team" for whom he was an assistant coach. He is only three victories behind Don Nelson for most career regular season wins as an NBA coach, with 1332, but he has five more playoff wins than Nelson. Wilkens grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. His father was African American and his mother was Irish....
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quick facts

Birthdate:	October 28, 1937
Birthplace:	Brooklyn, New York
Age:	74
All Positions Played:	Point guard
Education:	Providence College
Religion:	Roman Catholicism

Honors and awards for Lenny Wilkens

Year	Award
1970	NBA All-Star Game MVP
1993	NBA Coach of the Year Award

Season statistics for Lenny Wilkens

Portland Trail Blazers - 1974-75 NBA season

fg%: 0.439

3p%: N/A

ft%: 0.768

fga: 305

3pa: 0

fta: 198

orb: 38

drb: 82

ftm: 152

3pm: 0

fgm: 134

stl: 77

reb: 120

blk: 9

pts: 420

pf: 96

ast: 235

to: 0

games: 65

avg reb: 1.8

avg blk: 0.1

avg pts: 6.5

avg pf: 1.5

avg ast: 3.6

avg to: N/A

avg stl: 1.2

Cleveland Cavaliers - 1973-74 NBA season

fg%: 0.465

3p%: N/A

ft%: 0.801

fga: 994

3pa: 0

fta: 361

orb: 80

drb: 197

ftm: 289

3pm: 0

fgm: 462

stl: 97

reb: 277

blk: 17

pts: 1213

pf: 165

ast: 522

to: 0

games: 74

avg reb: 3.7

avg blk: 0.2

avg pts: 16.4

avg pf: 2.2

avg ast: 7.1

avg to: N/A

avg stl: 1.3

Cleveland Cavaliers - 1972-73 NBA season

fg%: 0.449

3p%: N/A

ft%: 0.828

fga: 1275

3pa: 0

fta: 476

orb: N/A

drb: N/A

ftm: 394

3pm: 0

fgm: 572

stl: 0

reb: 346

blk: 0

pts: 1538

pf: 221

ast: 628

to: 0

games: 75

avg reb: 4.6

avg blk: N/A

avg pts: 20.5

avg pf: 2.9

avg ast: 8.4

avg to: N/A

avg stl: N/A

Education

Providence College

Location:Providence

Founded:1917

Colors:White, Silver, Black

Mascot:Friar Boy, Friar

Providence College is a private, coeducational, Roman Catholic university located about two miles west of downtown Providence, Rhode Island, United States, the state's capital city. With a 2010–2011 enrollment of 3,850 undergraduate students and 735 graduate students, the college specializes...
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NBA players from Providence College

Name	Title	Most recent team
Ryan Gomes	Power forward	Los Angeles Clippers
Marshon Brooks	Small forward	Brooklyn Nets

Hometown of Lenny Wilkens

Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with approximately 2.5 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely...
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