# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lenny-wilkens
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:51:06.847Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lenny-wilkens"
name: "Lenny Wilkens"
slug: "lenny-wilkens"
description: "Leonard Randolph Wilkens was an American professional 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. In 1996, Wilkens was named to the NBA 50th Anniversary Team, and in 2021 he was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. In addition, in 2022 he was also named to the list of the 15 Greatest Coaches in NBA History, being the only person to be in both NBA 75th anniversary lists as a player and as a coach. He is also a 2006 inductee into the College Basketball Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American basketball player and coach (1937–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lenny_Wilkens_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1937-10-28"
deathDate: "2025-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 246
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump