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Lon Kruger

American basketball coach (born 1952)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2026
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Lonnie Duane Kruger is an American former college and professional basketball coach. Kruger played college basketball for Kansas State University. He served as the head coach of the University of Texas–Pan American, Kansas State, University of Florida, University of Illinois, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and University of Oklahoma as well as the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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This entry incorporates text from “Lon Kruger” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.