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	'''Leonard Randolph "Lenny" Wilkens''' (born October 28, 1937) is ~~an American~~ retired ] player and coach in the ] (NBA). He has been inducted three times into the ], first in 1989 as a player, as a coach in 1998, and as part of the ]", for which he was an assistant coach. From the 1994–95 season until the 2009–10 season, Wilkens was the winningest coach in NBA history and retired still holding the record at 1,332 victories. Wilkens is now second on the list behind ]. He won the ] for the ].<ref></ref>		'''Leonard Randolph "Lenny" Wilkens''' (born October 28, 1937) is a retired American ] player and coach in the ] (NBA). He has been inducted three times into the ], first in 1989 as a player, as a coach in 1998, and as part of the ]", for which he was an assistant coach. From the 1994–95 season until the 2009–10 season, Wilkens was the winningest coach in NBA history and retired still holding the record at 1,332 victories. Wilkens is now second on the list behind ]. He won the ] for the ].<ref></ref>

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Lenny Wilkens
Personal information
Wilkens in 1968
Born	(1937-10-28) October 28, 1937 (age 87) Brooklyn, New York
Nationality	American
Listed height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Listed weight	180 lb (82 kg)
Career information
High school	Boys (Brooklyn, New York)
College	Providence (1957–1960)
NBA draft	1960: 1st round, 6th overall pick
Selected by the St. Louis Hawks
Playing career	1960–1975
Position	Point guard
Number	32, 15, 14, 19, 17
Coaching career	1969–2005
Career history
As player:
1960–1968	St. Louis Hawks
1968–1972	Seattle SuperSonics
1972–1974	Cleveland Cavaliers
1974–1975	Portland Trail Blazers
As coach:
1969–1972	Seattle SuperSonics
1974–1976	Portland Trail Blazers
1977–1985	Seattle SuperSonics
1986–1993	Cleveland Cavaliers
1993–2000	Atlanta Hawks
2000–2003	Toronto Raptors
2004–2005	New York Knicks

Career highlights and awards
As player: 9× NBA All-Star (1963–1965, 1967–1971, 1973) NBA All-Star Game MVP (1971) NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team No. 19 retired by Seattle SuperSonics Consensus second-team All-American (1960) As coach: NBA champion (1979) NBA Coach of the Year (1994) 4× NBA All-Star Game head coach (1979, 1980, 1989, 1994) Top 10 Coaches in NBA History Gold medal winner at the Olympic Games (1996)

Career statistics
Points	17,772 (16.5 ppg)
Rebounds	5,030 (4.7 rpg)
Assists	7,211 (6.7 apg)

Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball Reference

Basketball Hall of Fame (playing)
Basketball Hall of Fame (coaching)
Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame

Leonard Randolph "Lenny" Wilkens (born October 28, 1937) is a retired American basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been inducted three times into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, first in 1989 as a player, as a coach in 1998, and as part of the 1992 United States Olympic "Dream Team", for which he was an assistant coach. From the 1994–95 season until the 2009–10 season, Wilkens was the winningest coach in NBA history and retired still holding the record at 1,332 victories. Wilkens is now second on the list behind Don Nelson. He won the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award for the 2010-11 NBA season.

Early life

Wilkens grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. His father was African American and his mother was Irish American. Wilkens was raised in the Roman Catholic faith.

At Boys High School, Wilkens was a basketball teammate of longtime Major League Baseball star Tommy Davis.

Playing career

Wilkens was a two-time All-American (1959 and 1960) at Providence College. He led the team to their first NIT appearance in 1959, and to the NIT finals in 1960. When he graduated, Wilkens was, with 1,193 points, the second-ranked scorer in Friar history (he has since dropped to twentieth as of 2005). In 1996, Wilkens' No. 14 jersey was retired by the college, the first alumnus to receive such an honor. In honor of his collegiate accomplishments, Wilkens was one of the inaugural inductees into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.

Wilkens was drafted sixth overall by the St. Louis Hawks in the 1960 NBA Draft. He began his career with eight seasons with the St. Louis Hawks, who lost the finals to the Boston Celtics in his rookie season. The Hawks made the playoffs consistently with Wilkens but never again reached the finals. Wilkens placed second to Wilt Chamberlain in the 1967–1968 MVP balloting, his last with the Hawks.

Wilkens was traded to Seattle for Walt Hazzard and spent four seasons there. Wilkens averaged 22.4 points, 6.2 rebounds, and 8.2 assists per game in his first season for the SuperSonics, and was an All-Star in three of his seasons for them. Wilkens was named head coach prior to his second season for the SuperSonics. Although the SuperSonics did not reach the playoffs while Wilkens simultaneously coached and started at point guard, their record improved each season and they won 47 games during the 1971–72 NBA season. Wilkens was dealt to the Cleveland Cavaliers before the start of the next season in a highly unpopular trade, and the SuperSonics fell to 26-56 without his leadership on the court.

Wilkens ended his career spending two seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers (1972–1974) and one with the Portland Trail Blazers (1974–1975).

Wilkens was a nine-time NBA All-Star, and was named the 1971 NBA All-Star Game MVP in 1971. With Seattle, he led the league in assists in the 1969–70 season, and at the time of his retirement, Wilkens was the NBA's second all-time leading playmaker (assists), behind only Oscar Robertson. He scored 17,772 points during the regular season.

Coaching career

From 1969–1972 with Seattle, and in his one season as a player with Portland, he was a player-coach. He retired from playing in 1975 and was the full-time coach of the Trail Blazers for one more season. After a season off from coaching, he again became coach of the SuperSonics when he replaced Bob Hopkins who was fired 22 games into the 1977–1978 season after a dismal 5-17 start. The SuperSonics won 11 of their first 12 games under Wilkens, made the playoffs, and ultimately reached the 1978 NBA Finals before losing in seven games to the Washington Bullets.

He coached in Seattle for eight seasons (1977–1985), winning his (and Seattle's) only NBA Championship in 1979. He would go on to coach Cleveland (1986–1993), Atlanta (1993–2000), Toronto (2000–2003) and New York (2004–2005).

The Hall of Famer was named head coach of the New York Knicks on January 15, 2004. After the Knicks' slow start to the 2004–2005 season, Wilkens resigned from the team on January 22, 2005.

Accomplishments

During the 1994-95 season Wilkens won his 939th career game, surpassing Red Auerbach's record. He was the first coach to record 1,000 career victories and retired with a 1,332-1,155 won-loss record. As noted above, his record was surpassed by Don Nelson in 2009-10.
He coached the Olympic Champion Men's Basketball team in 1996 and was an assistant coach on the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team ("The Dream Team").
Wilkens is one of four players to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach (the other three being John Wooden, Tom Heinsohn and Bill Sharman), joining the Hall in 1989 as a player and 1998 as a coach. He was inducted for a third time in 2010 as a member of the 1992 "Dream Team" (assistant coach).
In 1996, the NBA named Wilkens one of its 50 Greatest Players and 10 Greatest Coaches; Wilkens is the only person named to both lists. He is also a member of the Providence College Athletic Hall of Fame.
In 1994 Coach Wilkens was presented the United States Sports Academy's Amos Alonzo Stagg Coaching Award for his outstanding achievements as a coach.

Later years

On November 29, 2006 he was hired as vice chairman of the Seattle SuperSonics' ownership group, and was later named the Sonics' President of Basketball Operations on April 27, 2007. On July 6, 2007 Wilkens resigned from the Sonics organization. Wilkens currently is seen on Northwest FSN Studio as a College Hoops analyst and occasionally appears on College Hoops Northwest at game nights. He is the founder of the Lenny Wilkens Foundation for Children.

Quotes

"I learned my basketball on the playgrounds of Brooklyn. Today, being a playground player is an insult. It means all you want to do is go one-on-one, it means your fundamentals stink and you don't understand the game. But the playgrounds I knew were tremendous training grounds."
"Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up."

Head coaching record

Team	Year	Regular Season				Post Season
Team	Year	Won	Lost	Win %	Finish	Won	Lost	Win %	Result
SEA	1969–70	36	46	.439	5th in Western Division
SEA	1970–71	38	44	.463	4th in Pacific Division
SEA	1971–72	47	35	.573	3rd in Pacific Division
POR	1974–75	38	44	.463	3rd in Pacific Division
POR	1975–76	37	45	.451	5th in Pacific Division
SEA	1977–78	42	18	.700	3rd in Pacific Division	13	9	.591	NBA Finals
SEA	1978–79	52	30	.634	1st in Pacific Division	12	5	.706	NBA Championship
SEA	1979–80	56	26	.683	2nd in Pacific Division	7	8	.467	Conf. Finals
SEA	1980–81	34	48	.415	6th in Pacific Division
SEA	1981–82	52	30	.634	2nd in Pacific Division	3	5	.375	Conf. Semifinals
SEA	1982–83	48	34	.585	3rd in Pacific Division	0	2	.000	1st round
SEA	1983–84	42	40	.512	3rd in Pacific Division	2	3	.400	1st round
SEA	1984–85	31	51	.378	5th in Pacific Division
CLE	1986–87	31	51	.378	4th in Central Division
CLE	1987–88	42	40	.512	4th in Central Division	2	3	.400	1st round
CLE	1988–89	57	25	.695	2nd in Central Division	2	3	.400	1st round
CLE	1989–90	42	40	.512	4th in Central Division	2	3	.400	1st round
CLE	1990–91	33	49	.402	6th in Central Division
CLE	1991–92	57	25	.695	2nd in Central Division	9	8	.529	Conf. Finals
CLE	1992–93	54	28	.659	2nd in Central Division	3	6	.333	Conf. Semifinals
ATL	1993–94	57	25	.695	1st in Central Division	5	6	.455	Conf. Semifinals
ATL	1994–95	42	40	.512	5th in Central Division	0	3	.000	1st round
ATL	1995–96	46	36	.561	4th in Central Division	4	6	.400	Conf. Semifinals
ATL	1996–97	56	26	.683	2nd in Central Division	4	6	.400	Conf. Semifinals
ATL	1997–98	50	32	.610	4th in Central Division	1	3	.250	1st round
ATL	1998–99	31	19	.620	2nd in Central Division	3	6	.333	Conf. Semifinals
ATL	1999–00	28	54	.341	7th in Central Division
TOR	2000–01	47	35	.573	2nd in Central Division	6	6	.500	Conf. Semifinals
TOR	2001–02	42	40	.512	3rd in Central Division	2	3	.400	1st round
TOR	2002–03	24	58	.293	7th in Central Division
NYK	2003–04	23	19	.548	3rd in Atlantic Division	0	4	.000	1st round
NYK	2004–05	17	22	.436	5th in Atlantic Division
32 seasons		1332	1155	.536	-	80	98	.449	-

Source: Lenny Wilkens Coaching Record – Basketball-Reference.com

References

Wilkens presented Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award | NBA.com
Beck, Howard. "PRO BASKETBALL; Wilkens Denies He Was Asked to Go", The New York Times, September 28, 2005. Accessed November 20, 2007. "A native of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, Wilkens had added motivation to succeed in New York, which made leaving so quickly that much tougher."
^ Smith, Gary (December 5, 1994). "He Has Overcome". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved July 31, 2008.
Gastineau, Mark; Thiel, Art; Rudman, Steve (2009). The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists. United States: Running Press. pp. 261–262. ISBN 9780762435227. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
http://www.csmonitor.com/1994/0308/08141.html
Evans, Jayda (December 1, 2006). "Wilkens a Sonic again – as vice chairman". The Seattle Times.
SONICS: Lenny Wilkens Confirmed as President of Basketball Operations
http://lennywilkensfoundation.org/lwf_home.html
"Lenny Wilkens Interview (page: 6 / 7)". Academy of Achievement. Retrieved October 4, 2013.

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v t e Oklahoma City Thunder head coaches
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v t e Seattle SuperSonics 1978–79 NBA champions
1 Williams 8 Shelton 10 Hassett 11 Snyder 21 Awtrey 22 Robinson 23 LaGarde 24 D. Johnson (Finals MVP) 27 J. Johnson 32 Brown 35 Silas 42 Walker 43 Sikma
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v t e United States men's basketball squad – 1996 Summer Olympics – Gold medal
4 Barkley 5 Hill 6 Hardaway 7 Robinson 8 Pippen 9 Richmond 10 Miller 11 Malone 12 Stockton 13 O'Neal 14 Payton 15 Olajuwon Coach: Wilkens

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First Team	Darrall Imhoff Jerry Lucas Oscar Robertson Tom Stith Jerry West
Second Team	Terry Dischinger Tony Jackson Roger Kaiser Lee Shaffer Len Wilkens

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Territorial pick	Oscar Robertson
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1951: Macauley
1952: Arizin
1953: Mikan
1954: Cousy
1955: Sharman
1956: Pettit
1957: Cousy
1958: Pettit
1959: Baylor & Pettit
1960: Chamberlain
1961: Robertson
1962: Pettit
1963: Russell
1964: Robertson
1965: Lucas
1966: A. Smith
1967: Barry
1968: Greer
1969: Robertson
1970: Reed
1971: Wilkens
1972: West
1973: Cowens
1974: Lanier
1975: Frazier
1976: Bing
1977: Erving
1978: R. Smith
1979: Thompson
1980: Gervin
1981: Archibald
1982: Bird
1983: Erving
1984: Thomas
1985: Sampson
1986: Thomas
1987: Chambers
1988: Jordan
1989: Malone
1990: Johnson
1991: Barkley
1992: Johnson
1993: Stockton & Malone
1994: Pippen
1995: Richmond
1996: Jordan
1997: Rice
1998: Jordan
1999: No game played
2000: O'Neal & Duncan
2001: Iverson
2002: Bryant
2003: Garnett
2004: O'Neal
2005: Iverson
2006: James
2007: Bryant
2008: James
2009: Bryant & O'Neal
2010: Wade
2011: Bryant
2012: Durant
2013: Paul
2014: Irving
2015: Westbrook
2016: Westbrook
2017: Davis
2018: James
2019: Durant
2020: Leonard
2021: Antetokounmpo
2022: Curry
2023: Tatum
2024: Lillard

NBA annual assists leaders

1947: Calverley
1948: Dallmar
1949: Davies
1950: McGuire
1951: Phillip
1952: Phillip
1953: Cousy
1954: Cousy
1955: Cousy
1956: Cousy
1957: Cousy
1958: Cousy
1959: Cousy
1960: Cousy
1961: Robertson
1962: Robertson
1963: Rodgers
1964: Robertson
1965: Robertson
1966: Robertson
1967: Rodgers
1968: Chamberlain
1969: Robertson
1970: Wilkens
1971: Van Lier
1972: West
1973: Archibald
1974: DiGregorio
1975: Porter
1976: Watts
1977: Buse
1978: Porter
1979: Porter
1980: Richardson
1981: Porter
1982: Moore
1983: Johnson
1984: Johnson
1985: Thomas
1986: Johnson
1987: Johnson
1988: Stockton
1989: Stockton
1990: Stockton
1991: Stockton
1992: Stockton
1993: Stockton
1994: Stockton
1995: Stockton
1996: Stockton
1997: Jackson
1998: Strickland
1999: Kidd
2000: Kidd
2001: Kidd
2002: Miller
2003: Kidd
2004: Kidd
2005: Nash
2006: Nash
2007: Nash
2008: Paul
2009: Paul
2010: Nash
2011: Nash
2012: Rondo
2013: Rondo
2014: Paul
2015: Paul
2016: Rondo
2017: Harden
2018: Westbrook
2019: Westbrook
2020: James
2021: Westbrook
2022: Paul
2023: Harden
2024: Haliburton

NBA Coach of the Year Award

1963: Gallatin
1964: Hannum
1965: Auerbach
1966: Schayes
1967: J. Kerr
1968: Guerin
1969: Shue
1970: Holzman
1971: Motta
1972: Sharman
1973: Heinsohn
1974: R. Scott
1975: P. Johnson
1976: Fitch
1977: Nissalke
1978: H. Brown
1979: Fitzsimmons
1980: Fitch
1981: McKinney
1982: Shue
1983: Nelson
1984: Layden
1985: Nelson
1986: Fratello
1987: Schuler
1988: Moe
1989: Fitzsimmons
1990: Riley
1991: Chaney
1992: Nelson
1993: Riley
1994: Wilkens
1995: Harris
1996: Jackson
1997: Riley
1998: Bird
1999: Dunleavy
2000: Rivers
2001: L. Brown
2002: Carlisle
2003: Popovich
2004: H. Brown
2005: D'Antoni
2006: A. Johnson
2007: Mitchell
2008: B. Scott
2009: M. Brown
2010: Brooks
2011: Thibodeau
2012: Popovich
2013: Karl
2014: Popovich
2015: Budenholzer
2016: S. Kerr
2017: D'Antoni
2018: Casey
2019: Budenholzer
2020: Nurse
2021: Thibodeau
2022: Williams
2023: M. Brown
2024: Daigneault

v t e Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 1989
Players	Pop Gates K. C. Jones Lenny Wilkens

v t e Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 1998
Players	Larry Bird Marques Haynes Arnie Risen
Coach	Jody Conradt Alex Hannum Aleksandar Nikolić Lenny Wilkens

Members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Players

Guards	R. Allen Archibald Barnett Beckman Belov Billups Bing Blazejowski Borgmann Braun Brennan Bryant Carter Cervi Cheeks Clayton Cooper-Dyke Cousy Dampier Davies Drexler Dumars Edwards Endacott Frazier Friedman Galis Gervin Ginóbili Goodrich Greer Grentz Guerin Hammon Hanson Hardaway Haynes Holman Hyatt Isaacs Iverson Jeannette Jenkins D. Johnson M. Johnson K. Jones S. Jones Jordan Kidd Lieberman Maravich Marcari Marčiulionis Martin McDermott McGrady D. McGuire Meyers R. Miller Moncrief Monroe Moore C. Murphy Nash Page Parker Payton Petrović Phillip Posey Richmond Robertson Rodgers Roosma J. Russell Schommer Scott Sedran Sharman K. Smith Staley Steinmetz Stockton Swoopes Thomas D. Thompson Timms Vandivier Wade Wanzer Weatherspoon West Westphal Whalen J. White Wilkens Woodard Wooden
Forwards	Arizin Augustus Barkley Barry Baylor Bird Bosh Boswell Bradley R. Brown Cash Catchings C. Cooper M. Cooper Cunningham Curry Dalipagić Dandridge Dantley Davis DeBusschere Dehnert Duncan English Erving Foster Fulks Gale Garnett Gasol Gates Gola Hagan Havlicek Hawkins Hayes Haywood Heinsohn Hill Howell Hudson L. Jackson G. Johnson B. Jones King Korać Kukoč Lucas Luisetti K. Malone McClain B. McCracken J. McCracken McGinnis McHale Mikkelsen C. Miller Mullin Nowitzki Pettit Pierce Pippen Pollard Pullins Radja Ramsey Rodman Schayes E. Schmidt O. Schmidt Stokes C. Thompson T. Thompson Twyman Walker Webber N. White Wilkes Wilkins Worthy Yardley
Centers	Abdul-Jabbar Barlow Beaty Bellamy Chamberlain T. Cooper Ćosić Cowens Crawford Daniels DeBernardi Divac Donovan Ewing Gallatin Gilmore Griffith Gruenig Harris-Stewart Houbregs Issel Jackson W. Johnson Johnston M. Krause Kurland Lanier Leslie Lovellette Lapchick Macauley Maciel M. Malone McAdoo Meneghin Mikan Mourning S. Murphy Mutombo Olajuwon O'Neal Parish Reed Risen Robinson B. Russell Sabonis Sampson Semjonova Sikma Thurmond Unseld Wachter Wallace Walton Washington Yao

v t e Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award
2009: Tom Heinsohn 2010: Jack Ramsay & Tex Winter 2011: Lenny Wilkens 2012: Pat Riley 2013: Bill Fitch 2014: Bernie Bickerstaff 2015: Dick Motta 2016: K. C. Jones & Jerry Sloan 2017: Hubie Brown & Al Attles 2018: Doug Moe 2019: Frank Layden 2020: Del Harris 2021: Larry Brown 2022: Mike Fratello 2023: Rick Adelman 2024: Rudy Tomjanovich

v t e National Basketball Association's Top 10 Coaches in NBA History (1996-97)
Red Auerbach Chuck Daly Bill Fitch Red Holzman Phil Jackson John Kundla Don Nelson Jack Ramsay Pat Riley Lenny Wilkens

NBA 50th Anniversary Team

v t e Oklahoma City Thunder
Founded in 1967 Formerly the Seattle SuperSonics (1967–2008) Based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Franchise	History All-time roster Draft history 1967 Records Head coaches Seasons Current season
Arenas	Seattle Center Coliseum Kingdome Tacoma Dome Paycom Center
Personnel	Owner(s) Professional Basketball Club (Clay Bennett, chairman) President Vacant General manager Sam Presti Head coach Mark Daigneault
NBA G League affiliate	Oklahoma City Blue
Retired numbers	1 4 10 19 24 32 43
NBA championships	1979
Rivalries	Portland Trail Blazers (I-5 rivalry)
Culture and lore	Seattle SuperSonics relocation to Oklahoma City Howard Schultz Wheedle Squatch Rumble the Bison "It Was a Good Day" Sonicsgate Thunderstruck "Thunder Up" Radio network KWPN-AM WWLS-FM Love's

v t e Portland Trail Blazers
Founded in 1970 Based in Portland, Oregon
Franchise	History All-time roster Draft history 1970 Records Head coaches Seasons Current season
Arenas	Memorial Coliseum Moda Center
Personnel	Owner(s) Jody Allen President Dewayne Hankins General manager Joe Cronin Head coach Chauncey Billups
G League affiliate	Rip City Remix
Retired numbers	1 13 14 15 20 22 30 (Gross) 30 (Porter) 32 36 45 77
NBA championships	1977
Rivalries	Seattle SuperSonics (I-5 rivalry)
Culture and lore	Radio network Blazermania Rip City The Breaks of the Game Bulls vs. Blazers and the NBA Playoffs "Duck" Rose Garden arena bankruptcy Larry Weinberg Bill Walton Jack Ramsay Mike Barrett and Mike Rice Clyde the Glide The Schonz Trail Blazers Trumpets Memorial Day Miracle Blaze the Trail Cat Portland Indians Portland Fire Portlandia Dame Time

v t e Cleveland Cavaliers
Founded in 1970 Based in Cleveland, Ohio
Franchise	History All-time roster Draft history 1970 Records Head coaches Seasons Current season
Arenas	Cleveland Arena Richfield Coliseum Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse
Personnel	Owner(s) Dan Gilbert (majority) Gary Gilbert, Usher, Myles Garrett (minority) President Koby Altman General manager Mike Gansey Head coach Kenny Atkinson
G League affiliate	Cleveland Charge
Retired numbers	7 11 22 25 34 42 43
NBA championships	2016
Rivalries	Chicago Bulls Golden State Warriors
Culture and lore	Broadcasters FanDuel Sports Network Ohio Cavaliers AudioVerse WNZN WUAB WTCL-LD/WOHZ-CD "Cleveland Rocks" Cleveland sports curse Fred McLeod Jeff Shreve Joe Tait Olivier Sedra Paul Porter Ted Stepien The Decision The Shot Gordon Gund

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