THE Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder (and the Seattle Supersonics earlier than them) have 51 jersey numbers worn by the gamers who’ve carried the franchise since its creation at first of the 1967-68 season. To commemorate the gamers who wore these numbers, Thunder Wire covers your entire historical past of jersey numbers and the gamers who wore them because the crew’s inception.
And whereas these Supersonics jerseys will not be a part of the franchise’s historical past if a brand new crew was created in Seattle, as was the case with the return of the Charlotte Hornets, immediately they’re a part of the historical past of the Thunder.
For this text, we proceed with the eleventh jersey quantity within the sequence, jersey No. 9, with 12 gamers in complete having worn the jersey within the historical past of the franchise.
The third of those 12 gamers to put on quantity 9 did so in the course of the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder period, Jerami Grant, former OKC ahead. After ending his NCAA profession at Syracuse, Grant was chosen by the Philadelphia 76ers with the thirty ninth general choose within the 2014 NBA Draft.
The Portland, Oregon native spent the primary 3 seasons of his skilled profession with the Sixers earlier than buying and selling it to the Thunder for Ersan İlyasova and drafting property in 2016. His stick with OKC lasted 3 seasons earlier than to share out. this time to the Denver Nuggets for the 2019 draft property.
Whereas suiting up for the Thunder, Grant solely wore the No. 9 jersey and put up 9.2 factors, 3.9 rebounds and 1.1 blocks per recreation.
This text was initially printed on OKC Thunder Wire: Historical past of the Thunder jersey n°9 – Jerami Grant (2016-19)
