The late Lenny Wilkens coached a record 2,487 regular season NBA games. And on 1,332 of those occasions, as the coach of the Seattle SuperSonics, Portland Trail Blazers, Cleveland Cavaliers, Atlanta Hawks, Toronto Raptors and New York Knicks, his teams were victorious.

Sixty of Wilkens' coaching wins came against the Detroit Pistons.

But for rabid Pistons fans, three of those wins registered by Wilkens as the coach of the Cavaliers against the Pistons during the 1988-89 NBA season were particularly agonizing because at the time it appeared that Cleveland was in a better position to win a NBA title, which both teams and cities were vying to do for the first time.

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