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 in the beginning 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 staff’s inception.
And whereas these Supersonics jerseys might not be a part of the franchise’s historical past if a brand new staff was created in Seattle, as was the case with the return of the Charlotte Hornets, right now they’re a part of the historical past of the Thunder.
For this text, we proceed with the 14th jersey quantity within the sequence, jersey No. 12, with 15 gamers in complete having donned the jersey within the historical past of the franchise.
The fifteenth and present of those 15 gamers to put on the quantity 12 did so in the course of the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder period, wing alumnus Lindy Waters III.
After ending his faculty profession at Oklahoma State, Waters was not chosen within the 2020 NBA Draft, as an alternative signing with one other nationwide league for one season earlier than touchdown with the Thunder in Oklahoma Metropolis Blue, the place he concluded a two-way settlement with the Thunder.
His stick with the staff would span 3 seasons, ending when he was traded to the Golden State Warriors for Quinten Publish in 2024. Whereas suiting up for OKC, Waters solely wore jersey # 12 and scored 5.3 factors and a pair of.0. rebounds per recreation.
This text was initially revealed on OKC Thunder Wire: Historical past of the Thunder jersey n°12 – Lindy Waters III (2022-24)
