Providence College basketball legend  Lenny Wilkens '60  will be inducted into the African American Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, May 2.

As a player at PC, Wilkens earned All-America honors in 1959 and 1960 and helped the Friars to the NIT in the same years. Over three collegiate seasons, he played in 80 games and accumulated 1,193 points, which at the time placed him second on the program's all-time scoring list.

Wilkens was selected by the St. Louis Hawks in the first round of the 1960 NBA draft.

Over a 15-year professional playing career, Wilkens saw action with the St. Louis/Atlanta Hawks, Seattle Supersonics, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Portland Trailblazers. He appeared in nine NBA All-Star Games, winning the game's MVP award in 1971. When his career ended in 1975, Wilkens had played in 1,077 NBA games and scored 17,772 career points (average of 16.5 points per game).

Wilkens spent four of his final six active seasons as a player-coach with Seattle from 1969-72 and with Portland in 1974-75. He went on to coach six different teams over a span of 32 seasons, guiding Seattle to an NBA championship in 1979. On an international stage, he was an assistant coach for Team USA's gold medal team in the 1992 Olympics and head coach for the gold-winning 1996 Olympic team.

Also in 1996, Wilkens became the first ex-Friar to have his jersey (#14) retired by the College.

Wilkens is one of just three men, along with Bill Sharman and John Wooden, to be elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame twice. He was inducted as a player in 1989 and as a coach in 1998.