BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Our special observation of CNN's 20th anniversary continues this morning.</s>DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: It was on this date last year that Atlanta Hawks coach Lenny Wilkens entered the NBA record books.</s>ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>JIM HUBER, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: I remember more the time leading up to the breaking of the record than the actual night that it happened. I spent some time with Red Auerbach and Red wasn't very happy about his record going down. Lenny, on the other hand, admired Red immensely, felt kind of strange about breaking the great man's record too. But at the same time as the record was right there to be had, Hawks would lose, and the Hawks would lose, and the record still wasn't broken, and it just got very frustrating. Finally, when that night happened...</s>ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, the winningest coach in NBA history...</s>HUBER: ... it was more of a sense of relief than accomplishment.</s>ANNOUNCER: And he is Brooklyn-born Atlanta-bound Lenny Wilkens.</s>HUBER: One of the things that makes Lenny such a great coach is his adaptability, that he's been able to change with the times, change philosophies, change offenses and defenses. But at the same time, I think he just gets an awful lot out of his players. He'll stand there on the sidelines with his arms crossed like this and just sort of shake his head, and I think the players' reactions -- at least some of the ones that I've talked to -- has been: Oh, I don't want to disappoint poor Lenny so I'll play a little harder. To win as many games as Lenny Wilkens won over that space of time, not having the great talent night in and night out, you have to do some great coaching work, and that's just a credit to him.
CNN20: Wilkens Breaks Record, January 6, 1999