{"id":468921,"date":"2025-11-10T08:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=468921"},"modified":"2025-11-10T08:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:04:42","slug":"nba-legend-lenny-wilkens-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-legend-lenny-wilkens-dies-at-88\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA legend Lenny Wilkens dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"868\" data-end=\"1023\">The basketball world mourns <strong data-start=\"938\" data-end=\"955\">Lenny Wilkens<\/strong>, a Hall of Famer both as player and coach, who passed away at 88.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1025\" data-end=\"1315\">A nine-time All-Star in his 15-year career, Wilkens led the <strong data-start=\"1085\" data-end=\"1108\">Seattle SuperSonics<\/strong> to the 1979 NBA championship and was named <strong data-start=\"1152\" data-end=\"1181\">Coach of the Year in 1994<\/strong>. With 1,332 career victories, he ranks third all-time among NBA coaches, having also led Cleveland, Atlanta, Toronto, and New York.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1317\" data-end=\"1536\">Born in Brooklyn in 1937, Wilkens also won Olympic gold in 1996 and was part of the <strong data-start=\"1401\" data-end=\"1420\">1992 Dream Team<\/strong>. \u201cHe represented the very best of the NBA,\u201d said Adam Silver. \u201cA true gentleman and innovator,\u201d added Steve Kerr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The basketball world mourns Lenny Wilkens, a Hall of Famer both as player and coach, who passed away at 88<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":468920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-468921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/11\/G5Wrvw_WwAAkPrS.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468921"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=468921"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=468921"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=468921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}