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Legendary NBA coach who led USA to Olympic glory dies aged 88

Lenny Wilkens holds the record for coaching the most games in NBA history

The Independent UK

Lenny Wilkens's Cause of Death Mystery Deepens — Inside How the NBA Star Became Seattle's Basketball Godfather

Lenny Wilkens dies at 88 with cause of death undisclosed. Tributes pour in for the NBA icon known as the godfather of Seattle basketball.

International Business Times UK

Lenny Wilkens, Hall of Fame NBA Player and Coach, Dies at 88

Wilkens was a nine-time NBA All-Star and the third-winningest coach in league history.

Sports Illustrated

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Sonics legend Lenny Wilkens to raise the 12th Man Flag

USA Today Sports Media Group

‘There’s stress’: USA Basketball has always faced unique pressure at Olympics

Heavy lies the crown of the US men’s basketball team, who have always been expected to win gold, a pressure that’s only redoubled in the years since NBA players joined up

The Guardian - US

Tree Rollins, Shaq and the end of the NBA’s player-coach era

Veteran team leaders are often extensions of their coaches. But, until salary cap concerns intervened, the roles were often combined

The Guardian - US

Seattle wants an NBA team, but will the league play ball?

SEATTLE — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee presided over a meeting of Clippers and Portland Trail Blazers captains at midcourt before tipoff Monday evening as Lenny Wilkens, the coach of Seattle's lone NBA championship team in 1979, found his courtside seat. On the outer edge of the temporary court inside this…

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Matt Calkins: Bill Russell may have been team sports’ greatest winner, but that’s only part of why people are celebrating his life

Before he played under him as a forward with the Sonics, and before he forged a lifetime friendship with the legend, Spencer Haywood remembers meeting Bill Russell after the Celtics played against the Pistons in Detroit.

Tribune News Service

Larry Stone: NBA preseason game keeps dream of permanent return to Seattle alive

SEATTLE — It's another tease. Another brick on the (thus far) mythical road to bringing the Sonics — or at least a new team with that hallowed name — back to Seattle.

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