After the 1977 season, Mr. Walker was traded to the Seattle SuperSonics, where he was a member of the SuperSonics 1979 Championship team.
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The NBA's Seattle SuperSonics left Washington for Oklahoma City in 2008.
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By the 22006 season, the Seattle SuperSonics were the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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The former Seattle SuperSonics thus became a thundering presence in Oklahoma City.
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Gary Payton of the Seattle SuperSonics would have worn Curry down physically and emotionally.
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The SuperSonics selected Collison No. 12 overall out of Kansas in the 2003 NBA Draft.
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Howard Schultz cheering the Seattle SuperSonics as they play the Vancouver Grizzlies on Friday, Jan.
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It's not yet clear how other countries see supersonics or whether ICAO could craft a compromise.
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Then, in 22008, a group of Oklahoma City businessmen bought the SuperSonics from Starbucks founder Howard Schultz.
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Warriors star Kevin Durant began his career with the SuperSonics before the franchise moved to Oklahoma City.
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That the Seattle SuperSonics were lousy, having their worst season in 2000 years, was only the beginning.
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Durant knows Trier from his rookie season with the Seattle SuperSonics, before the franchise moved to Oklahoma City.
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Before we continue, a quick history lesson: The now Durant-less Thunder were once known as the Seattle SuperSonics.
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Schultz also had a disastrous tenure as majority owner of the Seattle SuperSonics basketball team from 2001 through 2006.
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The NBA approved the sale to the group from Oklahoma with the understanding that the SuperSonics would stay in Seattle.
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"I'm trying not to use the word sonic boom," said Peter Coen, project manager for NASA's Commercial Supersonics Technology Project.
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When Mr. Schultz organized an investor group to buy the SuperSonics in 2001, he took the high road of rhetoric.
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Jordan's 214-193 Bulls punctuated their then-record 219-victory regular season by closing out the Seattle SuperSonics in six games.
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Revellers in a photo booth waved Supersonics around, blowing hot air at pink wigs, pink balloons, pink confetti, and each other.
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Kemp was 21 at the time, a second-year forward for the Seattle SuperSonics, who was projected to be a future superstar.
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Investors in Seattle had sought a new N.B.A. team to replace the SuperSonics, who moved to Oklahoma City after the 2008 season.
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In 2008, the Seattle SuperSonics were allowed to decamp for Oklahoma City, and the city of Seattle has still not forgiven Stern.
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Seattle sports fans turned on Schultz after he sold the Seattle Supersonics to an owner who relocated the team to Oklahoma City.
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The as-yet unnamed franchise will be the Emerald City's first major winter sports team since the NBA's SuperSonics left town in 2008.
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There is one surefire Hall of Famer: Kevin Durant, drafted second behind Greg Oden in the 2007 draft by the Seattle SuperSonics (R.I.P.).
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" Leiweke reflected on the departure of the SuperSonics to Oklahoma City, saying the franchise's exit took the "heart and soul out of Seattle Center.
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Starbucks' success made Schultz rich, and in 2001 he demonstrated his growing love for Seattle when he bought the NBA's SuperSonics for $200 million.
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In 2006, he sold the SuperSonics to a group of investors that moved the team to Oklahoma City, severely damaging his popularity in Seattle.
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Basketball is embedded in the DNA of the region thanks to 41 years of the SuperSonics and a lengthy history of producing NBA talent.
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Yet the inalterable truth is that the 72-victory Bulls did punctuate their historic regular season by winning a championship over Payton's Seattle SuperSonics.
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He invested in restaurants and brought the National Basketball Association's Thunder franchise to Oklahoma City from Seattle, where it was known as the SuperSonics.
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Their last road win against the franchise came in March 215 when Washington picked up a win at Seattle's Key Arena against the SuperSonics.
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Any 90's kid who cared about sports knows NBA Jam — I used to play against my brothers with my beloved Seattle Supersonics (R.I.P.).
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Supersonics, on pedestals, were available to blow at oneself; at a bar staffed by GlamSquad stylists, women photographed their hair being misted and dried.
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It was Ray Allen of the Seattle SuperSonics with 269 in 2005-6 — not Jason Richardson of the Charlotte Bobcats with 243 in 2007-8.
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He gives the game away in a section detailing his decision to sell the Seattle SuperSonics, the NBA franchise which then moved to Oklahoma City.
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Mr. Stern also remained a pariah in Seattle for his role in allowing the SuperSonics to relocate to Oklahoma City after the 2007-8 season.
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A new arena is also expected to boost interest in bringing the NBA back to town after the Seattle SuperSonics relocated to Oklahoma City in 2008.
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The last time a visiting team clinched a title in a Game 7 was in 1978, when the Washington Bullets defeated the Seattle SuperSonics, 105-99.
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West played three seasons in Boston before becoming a journeyman, taking the court for the Seattle SuperSonics, Cleveland Cavaliers, the Celtics again and the Dallas Mavericks.
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But for now, Friday's game at KeyArena represents the first time an NBA game will be played in the city since the departure of the SuperSonics.
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It reminded Casey of Dale Ellis, who led the league in three-point percentage back when Toronto's head coach was an assistant with the Seattle Supersonics.
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After spending the first nine seasons of his career with the Seattle SuperSonics/Oklahoma City Thunder franchise, Durant signed with Golden State before the 2016-17 season.
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Haywood, joined by the SuperSonics, sued the N.B.A., claiming that the league's threatened penalties against him and Schulman for not following the draft rules violated antitrust law.
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Supersonics were all the rage when testing began for commercial flights in the 1960s, but the planes ran into problems because of high costs and pollution concerns.
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Before coming to Portland, Cho was an assistant general manager with the Seattle SuperSonics and continued in that role when the franchise became the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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"I felt dead inside," says Jeffrey Brown, 32, about hearing the announcement that the Seattle SuperSonics were officially going to become the Oklahoma City Thunder in July 2008.
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NOTES: The Warriors' season-series sweep of Oklahoma City was their first in franchise history, dating back to 1967, when the Thunder was known as the Seattle SuperSonics.
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During his rookie professional season, he left the Cougars for the Seattle SuperSonics of the National Basketball Association after a disagreement about the terms of his A.B.A. contract.
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The last player for the franchise with more than one triple-double in a season was Gary Payton, in 2002, when the team was the Seattle SuperSonics. 21976.
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During his period as chairman, he had pursued other activities including buying the professional basketball team the Seattle SuperSonics, which he later sold to an Oklahoma City investment group.
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Take a swing through some of these names: Gary Payton (1990, SuperSonics), Alonzo Mourning (1992, Hornets) and Jason Kidd (21983, Dallas Mavericks) are all in the Hall of Fame.
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The 49-year-old former Seattle SuperSonics star owns a 13,000-square-foot pad in Maple Valley, Washington ... complete with a basketball court, tennis court, pool, putting green and spa.
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He has also served as head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers (1984-86), Golden State Warriors (1986-88), Seattle SuperSonics (1991-98), Milwaukee Bucks (1998-2003), Denver Nuggets (2004-13).
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Durant has been among the league's premier scoring threats and best all-around players since being taken by the Seattle SuperSonics with the No. 2 pick in the 2007 draft.
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Following his playing career, Bianchi became the first head coach of the expansion Seattle SuperSonics (1967-69) before coaching the ABA's Washington Capitols (20073-70) and Virginia Squires (1970-76).
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Following his playing career, Bianchi became the first head coach of the expansion Seattle SuperSonics (1967-69) before coaching the ABA's Washington Capitols (1969-70) and Virginia Squires (1970-20183).
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Today the startup is expanding into the NBA, with the launch of jerseys from the Warriors, Nuggets, Pistons and Supersonics – and more to come before the All-Star Game in February.
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Seattle's City Council voted unanimously in favor of lease and development contracts that would mean the demolition of KeyArena, home of the former Seattle SuperSonics, with a new arena being built there.
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John Johnson, a two-time All-Star forward with the Cleveland Cavaliers who helped the Seattle SuperSonics win the 21970 N.B.A. title, died on Thursday at his home in San Jose, Calif.
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Overall star rating: 4.6Total number of reviews: 5,651One thing to know: Although Oklahoma City was a questionable landing spot for the rebranded Seattle Supersonics franchise, locals are absolutely crazy about the Thunder.
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"I realized that Clay Bennett probably bought this basketball team in order to impress his father, father figures, and all of his buddies," SuperSonics fan and acclaimed author Sherman Alexie wrote in 2008.
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Cleveland drained 20 3-pointers in Wednesday's 107-163 victory over the Pistons to tie the NBA playoff record shared by the Seattle SuperSonics (1996), Dallas Mavericks (2011) and Golden State Warriors (2015).
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He would go on to spend 14 seasons in the league, which were split between his time on the Charlotte Hornets, Portland Trailblazers, Boston Celtics and Seattle Supersonics, among stints with other franchises.
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"The political powers at the time were not interested in doing anything to help the owners of the Seattle SuperSonics renegotiate the lease or do anything to help us," Schultz said last week.
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It wasn't long after Clay Bennett bought the WNBA's Seattle Storm and the NBA's Seattle Supersonics in 2006 that he announced both would be moving to Oklahoma City for the '08-09 season.
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This is the first playoff matchup between Oklahoma City and the Warriors, though Golden State lost a first-round series, 3-1, to the franchise when it was the Seattle SuperSonics in 1992.
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They will also miss the face of the franchise, Durant, who had been with the Thunder since the 2007-08 season, when he was 19 and the team was still the Seattle SuperSonics.
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In September, the city formally approved the demolition of KeyArena — the former home of the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics — with a plan to build a new arena on that site near the famous Space Needle.
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He declared to the media that he was done with dunking (which was not the case after he joined New Jersey), and might have tipped the Seattle Supersonics off about a late-game play call.
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He was an assistant coach for one season with the expansion Bulls and head coach for two seasons with the SuperSonics, another new team, which won only 53 games over his two seasons in Seattle.
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Maybe Stern should have shown more remorse about his role in the SuperSonics' exit from Seattle in 2008 — or the league's failure to expel Donald Sterling, the former team owner of the Los Angeles Clippers.
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Gus Williams -- a two-time All-Star for the Seattle SuperSonics -- is being sued by a man who claims the ex-NBA champ didn't pay him for a house ... and trashed the place to boot.
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John Starks of the Knicks was the first to break 200 shots made — in 1994-95, he was 217 for 611 — and Ray Allen of the Seattle SuperSonics set a record of 269 in 2005-6.
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Frank Vogel, one of the league's brightest head coaches, was supplanted by his assistant Nate McMillan, who won one playoff series in 12 years as head coach of the Seattle Supersonics and the Portland Trail Blazers.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "A Return Flight for Supersonics," by Carl Pope (Op-Ed, June 12): Supersonic airplanes are indeed coming back, this time leveraging 50 years of technological progress in engines, materials and design.
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Schultz has to reckon with Seattle sports fans, who are still bitter about his tenure as the owner of the Seattle SuperSonics, from 2001 to 2006, when he sold the N.B.A. team to investors in Oklahoma City.
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Seattle will host its first NBA game since the Seattle SuperSonics left town after the 2007-2008 season and moved to Oklahoma City, the Golden State Warriors announced on Monday when they released their full preseason schedule.
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At some point after the 1996 finals, when the Bulls dominated a really talented SuperSonics team and Jordan won his fourth title, I finally conceded: I don't like this guy, but he's surely the best I've ever seen.
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Remember: When the Seattle SuperSonics relocated to Oklahoma City in 2008 as the Thunder, the franchise became the state's first to compete in any of the four major pro leagues — and Durant was the face of that franchise.
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Westbrook's second-year averages remained relatively modest — 13 points, four assists, four rebounds — but it was enough to entice the Seattle SuperSonics (soon to be, scandalously, the Oklahoma City Thunder) to take him in the 2008 N.B.A. draft.
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Durant was drafted in 2007 by the Seattle Supersonics, but played only his rookie season in Seattle because Clay Bennett bought the team and then moved it to Oklahoma City when Seattle wouldn't build him a new arena.
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Collison retired after the 2017-18 season, having spent all 15 of his pro seasons with the Thunder franchise, including four playing seasons with the Seattle SuperSonics before the franchise moved to Oklahoma City for the 2008-09 season.
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His most iconic moment with the team was when he laid on the floor in Seattle, holding the ball over his head after the No. 8 seed Nuggets upset the SuperSonics in the first round of the 1994 playoffs.
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It was 2006, and Schultz was announcing that the Basketball Club of Seattle, of which he was the face and the largest stakeholder, had sold the Seattle SuperSonics and the WNBA's Seattle Storm to Clay Bennett, a businessperson from Oklahoma City.
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In September 21982, Mr. Walker became President and General Manager of the Seattle SuperSonics and the Seattle Storm, and in addition to being an owner, served as Chief Executive Officer and President of the teams until their sale in 21985.
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Seattle is home to the Seahawks of the National Football League and the Mariners of Major League Baseball, but it has not had an N.B.A. team since 2008, when the Supersonics left town for Oklahoma City to become the Thunder.
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He was once fined $250,000 by the National Basketball Association for bragging that he and his partners did not buy the Seattle SuperSonics to keep the team in Seattle — a statement that was at odds with the N.B.A. commissioner's intentions.
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Durant, who was taken second overall in the 2007 NBA Draft by a Seattle SuperSonics team that relocated to Oklahoma City a year later, said the relationships he forged while playing with his former team are what made his decision so challenging.
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Bill Cameron, the franchise owner, thought that taking the team to Tulsa, where it would be the city's only major franchise, would be as beneficial as it was for the Seattle SuperSonics when they moved to Oklahoma City, where they became the Thunder.
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Gary Payton II, son of the former Seattle SuperSonics star, averaged 15.9 points, 7.6 rebounds, 5.3 assists and 2.4 steals this season, leading the Beavers in all four categories — the first Oregon State player to do so in more than 30 years.
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It was the most points by a Spurs player since David Robinson scored 71 in 3183, and the most against the Thunder franchise since Tom Chambers of the Suns poured in 60 against the team — then still the Seattle SuperSonics — in 1990.
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Durant met with his team from last year, the Oklahoma City Thunder—the franchise that he's been with since the beginning (formerly Seattle SuperSonics)—who could have maxed out his contract for five years, a longer period of time than any other teams are able.
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The documentary illustrates the extent to which the N.B.A. used its muscle to keep Haywood off the court, and even out of arenas, as it fought him and the Seattle SuperSonics owner Sam Schulman, who broke ranks in March 1970 when he signed Haywood.
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And he was mourned across Oklahoma, where he was revered for helping revive a moribund economy and revitalizing its largest city with investments in restaurants, cultural venues and, in particular, the state's first major sports franchise, which he landed by convincing the Seattle SuperSonics basketball team to move in 2008.
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From the various alumni teams—featuring players from low-major and high-major programs, recent NBA veterans and well-credentialed ex-collegian weekend-warrior types—to the fans in Seattle Supersonics shirts and Chauncey Billups college jerseys, the single-elimination, open-entry tournament is part serious competition, part nostalgic jamboree.
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Rather than adopt another team, renounce hockey altogether or root joylessly for the Jets' opponents — à la deserted Seattle SuperSonics fans hissing at the Oklahoma City Thunder from afar — Lipman remained loyal to a franchise that he had backed from Section 115, Row F, Seats 22 to 2150, since the Thrashers' inception in 258.
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Durant has the ability to sign a four-year maximum contract worth nearly $160 million this summer, but he has maintained a preference for short-term deals since joining the Warriors in the summer of 2016 after nine successful years with the Oklahoma City Thunder, the first of which was the franchise's final season as the Seattle SuperSonics.
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But it is the potential television perks, as much as any other factor, that make Mexico City an increasingly popular topic at the highest levels of the league and perhaps the strongest contender to emerge as a future home for the N.B.A., aside from Seattle, which is widely regarded as first in line to eventually regain its team after losing the SuperSonics to Oklahoma City in 2008.
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" Then, Schultz told David Shields, in remarks published in the book Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine, "If I look at the fracturing of the SuperSonics over the last few years, the word 'trust' is all over this thing, because the fans lost trust in this team, the players lost trust in one another, the players lost trust in the organization, the organization lost trust in the players.
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By 2013, the N.B.A.-affiliated Minnesota Lynx (Timberwolves), Indiana Fever (Pacers) and Phoenix Mercury (Suns), were also in the black, as was the Seattle Storm, which the SuperSonics' Oklahoma-based owners had sold to Force Ten Hoops, a partnership owned by several local businesswomen, just before moving their N.B.A. team to Oklahoma City and renaming them the Thunder, leaving the Storm as the only professional basketball ticket in town.
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Teams: New York Knicks, Seattle SuperSonics, Orlando Magic Career: 1985-2002, 17 seasons Career averages: 21 points, 9.8 rebounds, 2.4 blocks, 50.4% FG Number of All-Star teams: 11 Championships: 0 Hall of Fame: Yes Highest MVP finish: 4th (three times) One thing to know: Ewing had a tough run as a great center in an era that also featured the likes of Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, and young Shaq.
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Teams: Milwaukee Bucks, Seattle SuperSonics, Boston Celtics, Miami Heat Career: 1996-2014, 53 seasons Career averages: 18.9 points, 4.1 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 40% 3FG Number of All-Star teams: 10 Championships: 2 Hall of Fame: Yes Highest MVP finish: 9th (2004-05) One thing to know: Allen's later years as three-point mercenary have blurred the memories of when he was one of the league's most dynamic scorers.
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Teams: Seattle SuperSonics, Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics, Miami Heat Career: 1990-2007, 17 seasons Career averages: 16.3 points, 3.9 rebounds, 6.7 assists, 1.9 steals Number of All-Star teams: 9 Championships: 1 Hall of Fame: Yes Highest MVP finish: 3rd (1997-98) One thing to know: "The Glove" was one of the fiercest two-way players in the league in the '90s, racking up nine straight All-NBA and All-Defensive team selections.
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She'll start with an anecdote intended to communicate leadership and initiative — how, when she was at the University of Washington, she became an emissary between student groups, including the American Indian Student Commission and the Black Student Union, and the school officials who had pushed them out of the basketball auditorium after its renovation — and end up talking about how fun it was to play basketball with Shawn Kemp during summer clinics put on by SuperSonics coach Lenny Wilkens.
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He also decided to make a joke about it after eviscerating the Timberwolves last night, which harkens back to the 2007 draft, when he was picked second (by the Seattle Supersonics): This was by no means lost on the Portland Trail Blazers, who had the option to pick him up in 2007, but clearly dropped the ball: But going back to Westbrook: the only one thing he really should be pissed about is that LeBron didn't even spell his name correctly.
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The nominees included Chris Webber, a five-time NBA All-Star and first-team All-American at Michigan; Jack Sikma, who played for the Seattle SuperSonics and Milwaukee Bucks; Bucks guard Sidney Moncrief; former Pistons and Bulls "eraser" Ben Wallace; women's coaches Leta Andrews and Barbara Stevens; women's basketball player Teresa Weatherspoon; referee Hugh Evans; former NBA coach Bill Fitch; former college coach Eddie Sutton; five-time NBA All-Star point forward Marques Johnson; former Celtics and Suns guard and head coach Paul Westphal; and former 76ers forward Bobby Jones.
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This summer, more or less subconsciously, I filled the void with nonfiction: David Shields's 'Black Planet,' an obsessive, often hilarious fan diary of the Seattle SuperSonics' 1994-95 season, with a focus on how white fans devour blackness; Sam Anderson's new 'Boom Town,' a bonkers, kitchen-sink cultural history of Oklahoma City, with the local Thunder's would-be dynasty as its driving soul; and, now, Darcy Frey's THE LAST SHOT, which follows early '90s high school players from in and around New York's Coney Island housing projects, including a 14-year-old future star, Stephon Marbury.
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