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 the whole historical past of jersey numbers and the gamers who wore them for the reason that workforce’s inception.
And whereas these Supersonics jerseys might not be a part of the franchise’s historical past if a brand new workforce was created in Seattle, as was the case with the return of the Charlotte Hornets, at this time they’re a part of the historical past of the Thunder.
For this text, we proceed with the fifteenth jersey quantity within the collection, jersey No. 13, with 10 gamers in whole having worn the jersey within the historical past of the franchise.
The third of these gamers did it throughout his Seattle SuperSonics days, former guard Eric Snow. After ending his school profession at Michigan State, Snow was chosen with the forty third total choice within the 1995 NBA Draft by the Milwaukee Bucks.
The Canton, Ohio native, nonetheless, was dealt the identical night to the SuperSonics for Eurelijus Zukauskas and draft property. His stick with the workforce would span three seasons till he was traded to the Philadelphia 76ers for draft property in 1998.
Whereas suiting up for Seattle, Snow wore jerseys No. 3 and 13 and averaged 2.7 factors and 1.9 rebounds per recreation.
This text was initially printed on OKC Thunder Wire: Historical past of the Thunder jersey n°13 – Eric Snow (1995-98)
