I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.

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During the 1994-95 season Wilkens won his 939th career game surpassing Red Auerbach's record. Leonard Randolph "Lenny" Wilkens (born October 28 1937) is a retired American basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The SuperSonics won 11 of their first 12 games under Wilkens made the playoffs and ultimately reached the 1978 NBA Finals before losing in seven games to the Washington Bullets.

From the 1994–95 season until the 2009–10 season Wilkens was the all-time winningest coach in NBA history and retired still holding the record at 1332 victories. 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 as part of the 1992 United States Olympic "Dream Team" for which he was an assistant coach.