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Template:Infobox Euroleague Player William ("Bill") Percey Wennington (born 1963 in Montreal, Quebec) is a retired Canadian basketball player in the National Basketball Association who won three NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls: the 1996, 1997 and 1998 teams. A center, he was also a member of two Canadian Olympic Basketball Teams (1984 and 1992) and the 1983 World University Games team that won gold against the USA. Wennington has been inducted into the Quebec Basketball Hall of Fame and the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame.
Wennington attended Brookville, New York's Long Island Lutheran Middle and High School and St. John's University, playing on one NCAA Final Four team under legendary "St. John's Redmen" basketball coach, Lou Carnesecca. He was drafted in the first round of the 1985 NBA Draft by the Dallas Mavericks, where he played his first several seasons. Before joining the Chicago Bulls, he spent a few notable years in Italy playing for Virtus (Knorr) from Bologna.
In 1998, Chicago-area McDonald's restaurants sold a sandwich named after Wennington called the Beef Wennington. It was a quarter-pound burger with cheese, bacon, onions, pickles, mustard, and barbecue sauce.
Wennington now serves as a radio color commentator for the Bulls.
References
- Elliott Harris. "Beefing up his role - Bulls' Wennington latest burger celebrity". Chicago Sun-Times. March 8, 1998. Sports, 14.
- Chicago Bulls Basketball. ESPN 1000 AM. Retrieved on January 22, 2009.
External links
- Bill Wennington.com - Fan Site
- CSTV.com with story on Wennington's induction into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame
- Career Statistics
- FrozenHoops.com History of basketball in Canada. Selection of Top 100 Canadian players of all time
See also
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- 1963 births
- Living people
- Canadian basketball players
- Canadian expatriate basketball people in Italy
- Canadian expatriate basketball people in the United States
- Chicago Bulls players
- Dallas Mavericks draft picks
- Dallas Mavericks players
- People from Montreal
- People from Long Island
- Quebec sportspeople
- Sacramento Kings players
- St. John's Red Storm men's basketball players
- McDonald's High School All-Americans
- National Basketball Association broadcasters
- Virtus Bologna players
- Centers (basketball)
- Basketball players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Olympic basketball players of Canada
- Anglophone Quebecers
- Canadian radio sportscasters