| Isaiah Wilkins | |
| Position: | Graduate assistant |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 8 |
| Weight Lb: | 205 |
| Team: | Virginia Cavaliers |
| League: | Atlantic Coast Conference |
| Birth Date: | 23 September 1995 |
| Birth Place: | Lilburn, Georgia, U.S. |
| High School: | Greater Atlanta Christian (Norcross, Georgia) |
| College: | Virginia (2014–2018) |
| Draft Year: | 2018 |
| Career Start: | 2018 |
| Career End: | 2021 |
| Career Position: | Forward |
| Career Number: | 21, 97, 17, 91, 11 |
| Years1: | 2018–2019 |
| Team1: | Greensboro Swarm |
| Years2: | 2019 |
| Team2: | Canterbury Rams |
| Years3: | 2019–2020 |
| Team3: | Polpharma Starogard Gdański |
| Years4: | 2020–2021 |
| Team4: | ratiopharm Ulm |
| Coach Start: | 2021 |
| Cyears1: | 2021–present |
| Cteam1: | Virginia (GA) |
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Isaiah Wilkins (born September 23, 1995) is an American professional basketball player and coach, currently a graduate assistant for the University of Virginia men’s basketball team.
In college, Wilkins made the ACC All-Defensive Team in 2017 and 2018, and was named that conference's Defensive Player of the Year in 2018.[1] As a senior in 2017–18, Wilkins averaged 6.0 points, 6.2 rebounds, 1.6 assists, 1.2 steals and 1.4 blocks per game.[2]
After going undrafted in the 2018 NBA draft, Wilkins joined the Houston Rockets for the 2018 NBA Summer League, but was removed without reason.[3] On July 26, 2018, Wilkins joined the Charlotte Hornets on a training camp deal.[2] He was waived by the Hornets on October 11.[4] He subsequently was added to the roster of the Hornets’ NBA G League affiliate, the Greensboro Swarm.[5]
On March 20, 2019, Wilkins signed with the Canterbury Rams for the 2019 New Zealand NBL season.[6] [7] He was named the NBL Defensive Player of the Year.[8]
On August 17, 2019, Wilkins signed with Polpharma Starogard Gdański of the Polish Basketball League.[9]
On July 31, 2020, he has signed with ratiopharm Ulm of the German Basketball Bundesliga.[10] Wilkins would play for ratiopharm Ulm for 11 months before returning to UVA as a coach, putting a finish to his playing career.[11]
On June 15, 2021, Wilkins announced that he would be returning to UVA as a graduate assistant while he will be pursuing a master’s degree in UVA’s School of Education and Human Development.[12]
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2014–15| style="text-align:left;"| Virginia| 28 || 0 || 9.4 || .396 || .667 || .545 || 2.5 || .4 || .2 || .6 || 1.6|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2015–16| style="text-align:left;"| Virginia| 37 || 21 || 21.4 || .518 || .000 || .583 || 4.1 || 1.5 || .8 || .8 || 4.6|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2016–17| style="text-align:left;"| Virginia| 33 || 28 || 26.5 || .556 || .571 || .702 || 6.0 || 1.1 || 1.0 || 1.3 || 6.8|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2017–18| style="text-align:left;"| Virginia| 34 || 34 || 27.5 || .485 || .176 || .756 || 6.2 || 1.6 || 1.2 || 1.4 || 6.0|- class="sortbottom"| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career| 132 || 83 || 21.7 || .508 || .300 || .671 || 4.8 || 1.2 || .8 || 1.1 || 4.9
Wilkins is the stepson of Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Dominique Wilkins.[13]