SAN FRANCISCO — Al Attles, the Basketball Hall of Famer and Golden Warriors legendary point guard, has died, the NBA announced. He was 87.

Attles died Tuesday while surrounded by family at his home in the East Bay of California. No cause of death was given.

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A native of Newark, New Jersey, Attles played college basketball at North Carolina A&T before being drafted by the then-Philadelphia Warriors in the fifth round of the 1960 NBA Draft. Attles played his first two years in Philadelphia for the Warriors, which relocated to San Francisco ahead of the 1962-63 NBA season.

Attles, a 6-foot, 175-pound point guard nicknamed “The Destroyer,” played his entire 11-year NBA career for the Warriors from 1960 to 1971. For his career, he averaged 8.9 points, 3.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists in 25.1 minutes per game across 711 games played.

In his final two seasons playing for the Warriors, Attles also served as the team’s head coach. He coached the Warriors for 13 seasons, becoming the all-time winningest coach in franchise history with 557 wins and leading the Warriors to winning the 1975 NBA Championship. After 13 seasons as Warriors head coach, Attles served as general manager for the team for three seasons.

Attles’ No. 16 Warriors jersey was retired by the Warriors in 1977, and he was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019.

“Alvin Attles did not just epitomize what it meant to be a Warrior—he was Mr. Warrior,” the Warriors said in a statement. “His tenacious playing style earned him the affectionate nickname of “The Destroyer” on the court, but it was his gentle soul, grace and humility off the court that served as a guiding light for the organization for more than six decades.

“As a player, coach, general manager, ambassador, and most of all, as a person, Alvin set the standards of professionalism and class by which we all strive to achieve. He leaves behind a profound legacy within the game of basketball and the Bay Area community, but especially as a family man and humanitarian. We mourn his loss alongside his wife, Wilhelmina, son Alvin, and all who knew and loved him.”