Lenny Wilkens was more than just a coach for the Portland Trail Blazers over three decades ago. He is probably best known for his double induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame, in 1989 as a player and then again in 1998 as an NBA coach.
He did well as vice chairman of the Seattle SuperSonics ownership group, becoming its President of Basketball Operations in 2007. But less than three months later, Wilkens resigned from this organization. He’s still in the basketball picture today though. He sometimes appears on Northwest College Hoops at game nights as well as Northwest FSN Studio as a College Hoops analyst.
Wilkens only coached the Trail Blazers for one season, but retired with a pretty impressive array of wins. Indeed at the time of his retirement, he boasted 1,332 wins and 1,155 losses, which puts him in second place for most wins. He has over 35 years of professional coaching, which is one of the longest of any NBA coaches. Perhaps if he would have been around today, in Greg Oden’s time, he may have remained with the Trail Blazers for a somewhat longer period of time.
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