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Leonard Randolph "Lenny" Wilkens (born October 28, 1937) is a retired American basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association (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 in 2010 as part of the 1992 United States Olympic "Dream Team", for which he was an assistant coach. He is also a 2006 inductee into the College Basketball Hall of Fame. Wilkens was a combined 13-time NBA All-Star as a player (nine times) and as a head coach (four times), was the 1993 NBA Coach of the Year, won the 1979 NBA Championship as the head coach of the Seattle SuperSonics, and an Olympic gold medal as the head coach of the 1996 U.S. men's basketball team. From the 1994–95 season until the 2009–10 season, Wilkens was the winningest coach in NBA history and retired still holding the record at 1,332 victories. Wilkens is now second on the list behind Don Nelson. He won the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award for the 2010-11 NBA season.〔(Wilkens presented Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award | NBA.com )〕 ==Early life== Wilkens grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.〔Beck, Howard. ("PRO BASKETBALL; Wilkens Denies He Was Asked to Go" ), ''The New York Times'', September 28, 2005. Accessed November 20, 2007. "A native of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, Wilkens had added motivation to succeed in New York, which made leaving so quickly that much tougher."〕 His father was African American and his mother was Irish American. Wilkens was raised in the Roman Catholic faith.〔 At Boys High School, Wilkens was a basketball teammate of longtime Major League Baseball star Tommy Davis. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lenny Wilkens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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