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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Great BookBy Jeff BullockIn 1960, when Lenny Wilkens graduated from Providence, he honestly didn't expect to be playing in the NBA - his idea was to go into teaching or another job - he barely even played a season of high school ball. A player like was coveted by the NBA probably when he was in junior high - a player like was coveted coming out of USF. Lenny Wilkens lasted alot longer than any of them in the NBA becoz he had to work for everything he got - that's the kind of player, the kind of athlete that is missing nowadays and the kind of athlete we will never see again - that's what makes this low key book a great read. Yes, he does play the race angle a little but not being in his shoes, I had no idea what he went through either. You won't go wrong with his book.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Awesome!By us4mommyExcellent book. I love Mr. Lenny. It was great learning more about his personal life.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Four StarsBy CustomerGood book

For forty years, he has been the Quiet Man of the NBA. As a rookie, he was overshadowed by two pretty fair guards who entered the league at the same time: and . As a veteran, he was -- both figuratively and literally -- a coach on the floor, but he had the misfortune to play for several struggling teams. As a general manager, he won a championship and made back-to-back Finals appearances -- but he did it without superstars, a year before and revitalized the league. And as a coach, he has won more games than anyone in NBA history -- but spent his best years locked in the same division as 's Chicago Bulls. connoisseurs have long appreciated the style and intelligence with which Lenny Wilkens played and the unflappability and class he's brought to coaching. The respect he has earned resulted in his joining the legendary as the only men to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame "twice" -- first as a player, and then as a coach. Now, in "Unguarded, " Lenny Wilkens steps out from behind his placid demeanor to speak plainly and unequivocally on the enormous social and athletic changes he's seen in his career. Wilkens sounds off about the challenges he had to overcome in the course of his journey: the racism that left him off the 1960 Olympic basketball team and kept him from being chosen as head coach of the first Dream Team; the fatal miscalculation that kept his from getting past Michael Jordan to the NBA Finals; the painful, frustrating task of coaching a troubled and troublesome J.R. Rider, a player who contributed to his departure from Atlanta. And he credits those who went out of their way to help him: the priests and nuns who taught him the value of discipline and reinforced his faith; the coaches who pushed him to develop his talents to the fullest; the selfless players such as John Johnson, Hot Rod Williams, Larry Nance, , and many others who sacrificed individual glory for the good of their teams; his mother, Henrietta, and his wife, Marilyn, who stood beside him in many trying times. "Unguarded "reveals the Lenny Wilkens we have never seen before, the tough, strong, thoughtful, and analytical man who has spent a life in basketball making his teammates and players better than they knew they could be. Thought-provoking, candid, always honest, Wilkens shares all the secrets he's learned in his four decades surviving in the NBA storm.

From Publishers WeeklyOne of only two men to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a player and as a coach, Wilkens describes his life on and off the court in this introspective memoir. Wilkens, who has won more games than any other coach in NBA history, begins by recounting his childhood in and follows his career through his acceptance of his current job as head coach of the . Along the way, he endured many hardships, including the loss of his father at a young age, poverty and racism, but here Wilkens always remains upbeat, focusing on how he overcame his problems rather than on how they might have held him back. Wilkens also shares his philosophies on basketball, society, family life and religion, in addition to offering opinions on specific players and on what factors make a great coach. Wilkens, whose father was African-American and whose mother is Irish, also conveys his opinions on race relations, both within the NBA and in America. Because his career has lasted so long, Wilkens is in a unique position to comment on the changes that have taken place in the league over the last 40 years. Coauthor Pluto's conversational style buoys the reader along, despite a few repetitions. Wilkens comes across as modest while still letting the reader know that he is proud of his accomplishments as a player, a coach and a family man. The book should do well among NBA fans, who will appreciate this intelligent, inside look at the NBA from one of the legends of the game. (Jan.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.From BooklistWhen Lenny Wilkens enrolled at in the 1950s, he had never seen an NBA game, not even on television. He had no hoop dreams. And yet, four decades later, he is the winningest coach in the history of professional basketball. Along with highly regarded sports journalist Pluto, Wilkens tells the story of his remarkable career in this low-key but quite moving memoir. As Wilkens, the son of a black father and a white mother, recounts his improbable rise from the streets of Brooklyn to Providence and the NBA, where he was an all-star guard before becoming a coach, the reader is struck by the dramatic differences between basketball then and now. As Wilkens notes again and again, today's NBA is dominated by superstars who have been courted since childhood--by shoe companies, by colleges, by agents, by pro teams. The values that served Wilkens throughout his career--patience, unselfishness, teamwork--and that led to his 1979 NBA championship as coach of the Seattle Supersonics, the least team to win a title without a dominant player, are in short supply today. Wilkens' view of how the game has changed makes fascinating if somewhat melancholy reading for any basketball fan. Bill OttCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reservedAbout the AuthorTerry Pluto is an award-winning sportswriter who writes primarily for The Plain Dealer. He was a sportswriter for the Akron Beacon Journal from 1985-2007. He has twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and twice been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors as the nation's top sports columnist for medium-sized newspapers. He is an eight-time winner of the Ohio Sports Writer of the Year award and has received more than fifty state and local writing awards. He is the author of twenty-one books, including The Curse of Rocky Colavito, Unguarded, and . He lives in Akron, Ohio.

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