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 the beginning 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 group’s inception.
And whereas these Supersonics jerseys is probably not a part of the franchise’s historical past if a brand new group was created in Seattle, as was the case with the return of the Charlotte Hornets, right this moment they’re a part of the historical past of the Thunder.
For this text, we proceed with the fifteenth jersey quantity within the sequence, jersey No. 13, with 10 gamers in complete having worn the jersey within the historical past of the franchise.
The fourth of these gamers did it throughout his Seattle SuperSonics days, former huge man Jerome James. After ending his faculty profession at Florida A&M, James was chosen by the Sacramento Kings with the thirty sixth general choice within the 1998 NBA Draft.
The Tampa, Florida native would play the primary season of his skilled profession with the Kings earlier than an harm took a season away from him, and one other season was spent taking part in exterior of the NBA earlier than signing with Seattle in as a free agent in 2001.
His stick with the group would span 4 seasons, ending together with his signing with the New York Knicks in 2005. Whereas suiting up for the SuperSonics, James wore jerseys Nos. 33 and 13 and picked up 5.1 factors, 3.6 rebounds and 1.3 blocks per recreation.
This text was initially revealed on OKC Thunder Wire: Historical past of the Thunder jersey n°13 – Jerome James (2001-05)
