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Longtime NBA player and coach Lenny Wilkens died on Sunday. He was 88.

Wilkens was a rare breed in the NBA. He played for 15 seasons, four of which he served as a player-coach.

He coached the 1979 Seattle SuperSonics to an NBA championship.

Wilkens won the third most games as an NBA coach with 1,332. He also coached Team USA basketball to an Olympic gold medal in 1996.

He is one of five people to be enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach.

Wilkens coached three seasons with the Toronto Raptors from 2000-2003 and led the franchise to its first playoff series win in his first season as head coach.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement, “Lenny Wilkens represented the very best of the NBA — as a Hall of Fame player, Hall of Fame coach, and one of the game’s most respected ambassadors. So much so that, four years ago, Lenny received the unique distinction of being named one of the league’s 75 greatest players and 15 greatest coaches of all time.”