Lenny Wilkens — a Brooklyn native enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach — died Sunday at 88.
A perennial All Star, he was cited as one of the league’s 50 greatest players and one of its top 10 coaches, winning 1,332 games and leading Seattle to a championship.
Many people have opinions on who the greatest player of all time (GOAT) is. Red Auerbach, the legendary coach with the second-most NBA championship titles, was no different. In a 1991 interview with ...
NBA great Lenny Wilkens, a Hall of Famer as both a player and a coach, has died at the age of 88, his family said ...
Lenny Wilkens, whose Hall of Fame basketball career as a player and coach included being the head coach of the 1996 U.S.
Today in Boston Celtics history, Arnold "Red" Auerbach coached his first regular-season game with the storied ball club.
Longtime Boston Celtics rival power forward/center John Salley, most irritating to Boston fans during his Detroit Pistons heyday, revealed during a new appearance on Udonis Haslem and Mike Miller's ...
WASHINGTON Red Auerbach, the Hall of Fame coach who led the Boston Celtics to nine NBA championships in the 1950s and 1960s, died Saturday. He was 89. Auerbach won ...
On June 17, 1986, the Boston Celtics, the reigning NBA champions, selected Len Bias as the second overall pick in the 1986 NBA Draft at Madison Square Garden. Although he was just 22 years old at the ...
The great Larry Bird didn't need much inspiration to keep him fueled during his playing years. Time and again, "Larry Legend" had proven that he could perform and dominate whenever he wanted to.