On November 9, 2025, the basketball world and the city of Seattle lost one of its most cherished figures: Lenny Wilkens, passed away at the age of 88. Wilkens was a legendary NBA player and coach, a three-time inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and one of the most respected ambassadors of the game.
This episode of Chino Y Chicanowith Enrique Cerna revisits a candid 2000 interview with Wilkens on the Seattle public television program KCTS 9 Connects (hosted by Enrique Cerna), recorded shortly after he published his autobiography, UNGUARDED: My 40 Years Surviving in the NBA. The conversation reveals not just his reflections on basketball but the humility, insight, and personal poise that defined both his playing and coaching careers.
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