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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.
Lenny Wilkens
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Lenny Wilkens
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: October 28
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Brooklyn
New York
Leonard Randolph Lenny Wilkens
Leonard Randolph Wilkens
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