Robert M. "Bob" Hopkins (November 3, 1934 – May 15, 2015) was an American basketball player and coach. He played college basketball at Grambling State University, where he scored 3,759 points (averaging 29.8 points per game for his career), and then played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for four seasons with the Syracuse Nationals. He later coached the Seattle SuperSonics of the NBA during part of the 1977–78 season, posting a 5–17 record before being fired midseason. He was replaced by Lenny Wilkens, who led the Sonics to the NBA Finals that season and the following, winning the NBA championship in 1979. He died of heart and kidney failure on May 15, 2015.
Former Seattle Supersonics guard Donald "Slick" Watts has died at 73, his son announced on social media ... However, his college coach, Bob Hopkins, was a cousin of NBA legend Bill Russell's ... He wound up making the team and sticking around for five years.
Not only was it the place where his game thrived, but his coach Bob Hopkins was the cousin of then SuperSonics coach Bill Russell... Whether it was his style of play or broadcaster Bob Blackburn’s ...
County Commissioner Bob Hopkins cast the sole vote against approving the loan, stating the housing is needed and the project appears valid, but he questions whether the decision should be made without seeking other proposals ... .