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Nine-Time NBA All-Star and Longtime Coach Lenny Wilkens Dies @ 88

November 15, 2025 In Death by Numbers No Comments

Hall of Famer Lenny Wilkens, who coached the most games in NBA history, dies at 88

Lenny Wilkens was one of the most famous basketball players of the 60’s and 70’s, playing for four different teams and being selected to nine All-Star Games with three different teams.

Remarkably, Wilkens was also the head coach of all four teams he played for, including stints as a player-coach for both Seattle and Portland. After his playing career had finished, he again became the head coach of the Seattle SuperSonics, leading them to their one and only NBA Championship in the 1979 NBA Finals.

In modern times, the SuperSonics don’t even exist. In 2008, the team was moved to Oklahoma and became the Oklahoma City Thunder. It just so happens that this past June, the franchise won their first NBA Title since that 1979 run. Check out my post on Game 7 of those Finals.

The Oklahoma City Thunder were led to their championship by their head coach Mark Daigneault, who was born in Massachusetts – the birthplace of basketball.

Oklahoma City Thunder and Mark Daigneault both = 88, Massachusetts = 808

Lenny Wilkens died at age 88

The Tower / Nine-Eleven

Wilkens was born in New York City:

There has long been an ongoing riddle between Seattle and Manhattan. Consider how Seattle’s baseball team won 116 games in 2001, the year of the 9/11 attacks, only to lose to New York in the ALCS.

Seattle and Manhattan both = 321 Latin

Wilkens and the Sonics won the championship 12048 days after the NBA’s founding:

"The Tower" = 1248 (Latin)

In the Tarot’s Major Arcana, The Tower card dons an image of people falling out of a large tower, reminiscent of the 9/11 attacks:

The Tower and The National Basketball Association both = 1068

The Twin Towers came down on 9/11

"Tisha BAv" = 911 (Latin)

Leonard Randolph Wilkens died on November ninth, or 11/09:

Leonard Randolph Wilkens and Wilkens both = 119

"November ninth" = 1109 (Latin)

OKC Thunder = 119 and Oklahoma City Thunder = 1119

Daigneault was born a span of 119 days after Wilkens’ birthday:

Daigneault was 119 days after his birthday when his team won it all:

The Thunder won the title 9 months, 11 days after 9/11:

The 119th Composite number is 156
911 is the 156th Prime number

Lenny passed away 29011 days after the NBA’s founding and 156 days after its anniversary:

Lenny Wilkens lived for a total of 1056 months:

News of his death was published a span of 32,156 days after he was born:

The 1979 NBA Finals was the 33rd ever played.

"Thirty three" = 156 (Ordinal)

Skull & Bones

The Sep. 11th attacks were exactly 790 Lunar phases after Lenny was born:

The National Basketball Association is 79 years old:

Lenny Wilkens led the Sonics to their lone NBA title in ’79. Seattle is home to the Space Needle.

"Sonics" = 79 (Ordinal)

"Needle" = 79 (Latin)

Murder and Yale University both = 79

Yale University was founded on the 282nd day of the year:Evans died 20082 days after One Life to Live debuted:

Sonics = 282 and 322

The Sonics are now called the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Oklahoma City Thunder and OKC Thunder both = 223

The Oklahoma City Thunder coach was born a span of 2020 weeks, 3 days after the NBA’s establishment:

His birthday is February 23rd, or 2/23:

Wilkens died a span of 22 weeks, 3 days after the NBA’s date of formation:

In 2023, Yale, home to the Skull and Crossbones = 223 (or Order 322), turned 322 years old:

The NBA turned a span of 28,250 days old on that date:

Leonard Randolph Wilkens died exactly 25 months after Yale University’s special date:

"Leonard Randolph Wilkens" = 250 (Ordinal)

"Yale University" = 205 (Ordinal)

"Death" = 25 (Reverse Reduction)

The Sonics won the Finals 6,250 days (or 205 months) after the Space Needle opened:

Lenny passed away in the year ’25
The 25th Prime number is 97

Skull and Crossbones, Brotherhood of Death, and Death all = 97

Lenny Wilkens was selected in the 1960 NBA Draft by the Hawks, where he played for eight years and coached for another seven.

"Hawks" = 1009 (Latin)

XVI = 1009 Latin and Standard

Yale was founded on October 9th, written 10/09 or 10/9:

"National Basketball Association" = 190 (Reverse Reduction)

Seattle = 19 and Sonics = 109

Wilkens wore #19 for the Seattle Sonics, which the team would later retire:

Wilkens died a span of exactly 109 weeks after Yale’s ‘Skull & Bones’ anniversary and 19 months, 1 day after the last Total solar eclipse:

"Total solar eclipse" = 191 (Latin Ordinal)

Wilkens and SuperSonics both = 191 Reverse Caps

Wilkens was 15,191 days old when he and the SuperSonics won the title:

"Oklahoma City" = 191 (Reverse)

The National Basketball Association and Skull & Bones both = 140

Wilkens died 140 days after the Thunder won the Championship:

Other Notes

"Skull and Bones" = 572 (Latin)

Lenny was 8,572 days old when Space Needle construction started:

"Hurricane" = 426 (Latin)

Mark Daigneault was a span of 40 years, 260 days (or 14870 days) old:

"Scottish Rite of Freemasonry" = 1487 (Latin)

The famed player-coach was 8807 (or a span of 8808 days) old when the Space Needle was completed:

SuperSonics = 887 and Oklahoma City Thunder = 888

Wilkens was born exactly 449 weeks after the formation of the NBA:

449 is the 87th Prime number

In Satanic, Seattle SuperSonics = 870 and Seattle Washington = 807

Last Sunday was exactly 3889 months after Yale’s founding:

3889 is the 539th Prime number

"Yale University" = 539 (Fibonacci)

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