Bill Wennington Basketball player

William ("Bill") Percey Wennington is a retired Canadian basketball player who won three NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls. 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 where he played under Bob McKillop, and St. John's University, playing on one NCAA Final Four team under legendary 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. Wennington now serves as a radio color commentator for the Bulls.