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Wilkens now has that star in his hands

By Jeffrey Denberg
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, November 20, 2000

I feel bad for Lenny Wilkens. He's lost his biggest excuse. "You know, I've never had a great player," Wilkens was fond of saying in the seven years he coached the Hawks. "You know, I coached a lot more bad players than Red did," he said when he surpassed Red Auerbach's old NBA record of 938 coaching victories. That must be why Red won nine titles in Boston while Lenny grabbed only one with Seattle, in 1979. In Cleveland with Larry Nance, Brad Daugherty and Mark Price, ...

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