![]() He was the back-to-back MVP for the team's consecutive Class 3-A State Championships (1978–1979). His family moved to Dallas and Baltimore before settling in Washington, North Carolina, where he attended Washington High School. He has a younger brother, Gerald Wilkins, who also played in the NBA, mainly for the New York Knicks. Wilkins was born in Paris while his father was stationed in France as an airman in the U.S. men's national team, Wilkins won gold at the 1994 FIBA World Championship.Įarly life and high school career In addition to his 11 seasons with the Hawks, Wilkins had short stints with the Los Angeles Clippers, the Boston Celtics, Panathinaikos Athens (a professional team in Greece's top-tier level Greek Basket League, with whom he won his first titles, the FIBA European League and the Greek Cup), Fortitudo Bologna (a professional team in Italy's top-tier level LBA), the San Antonio Spurs, and the Orlando Magic before he retired in 1999. ![]() In 2006, Wilkins was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Wilkins led the NBA in scoring in the 1985–86 season. In October 2021, he was honored as one of the league’s greatest players of all-time by being named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. Wilkins was a nine-time NBA All-Star, a seven-time All-NBA Team member and is widely viewed as one of the most acrobatic slam dunkers in NBA history, earning the nickname " the Human Highlight Film". Jacques Dominique Wilkins (born January 12, 1960) is an American former professional basketball player who primarily played for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). ![]()
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