With the news this past week of the passing of basketball legend Lenny Wilkens we wanted to rerun one of our earliest Stories of Atlanta videos about the Hawks legendary player and coach. Wilkens was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame on 3 separate occasions, once as a player, once as a coach and once as an assistant coach for the 1992 Olympic “Dream Team.” Though he played for the Hawks, they were not an Atlanta team during his playing days and that was the subject of our story on Lenny Wilkens.
As we noted when we first produced this story, when a professional sports franchise moves from one city to another, not everything in the process goes smoothly. In 1966, one St. Louis Hawks NBA basketball player discovered that moving to Atlanta, Georgia, sometimes takes longer than one might think. It’s the story of Atlanta Hawks fans having to endure delayed gratification on this week’s Stories of Atlanta.
