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 complete historical past of jersey numbers and the gamers who wore them because the crew’s inception.
And whereas these Supersonics jerseys is probably not 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, at the moment 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 whole having worn the jersey within the historical past of the franchise.
The eighth of those 12 gamers to put on the quantity 9 did so in the course of the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder period, former OKC huge man Moses Brown. After ending his NCAA profession at UCLA, Brown was not chosen within the 2019 NBA Draft and as an alternative signed with the Portland Path Blazers, the place he would spend the primary season of his skilled profession.
The New Yorker would signal with the Thunder as a free agent following the top of his stint with the Blazers in 2020, and his time in Oklahoma Metropolis would finish in 2021 when Brown was traded to the Boston Celtics together with Al Horford in 2021.
Whereas suiting up for the Thunder, Brown solely wore the No. 9 jersey and put up 8.6 factors, 8.9 rebounds and 1.1 blocks per sport.
This text was initially printed on OKC Thunder Wire: Historical past of the Thunder jersey n°9 – Moses Brown (2020-21)
