Lenny Wilkens, a Brooklyn native enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach, died Sunday at 88. Wilkens starred as a player for 15 seasons after being drafted sixth overall ...
The simple fact of being a player-coach alone made Lenny Wilkens an outlier from another age. According to Wikipedia, there have been 40 NBA players who also simultaneously served as their team’s ...