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Lenny Wilkens, a Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee as both a player and coach, died Sunday at 88.—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 10 Nov. 2025 In memoriam Lenny Wilkens, a three-time inductee into the Basketball Hall of Fame who was enshrined as both a player and a coach, has died at age 88.—Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2025 Lenny Wilkens, a three-time inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the second-to-last man to ever serve as a player-coach in the NBA, died Sunday at the age of 88, the NBA announced.—Joe Vardon, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025 The show jumped from the Seventies to the Nineties when 2023 inductee Missy Elliott came out to welcome Salt-N-Pepa as the first female hip-hop act in the Hall of Fame.—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inductee
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