The Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder (and the Seattle Supersonics earlier than them) have 51 jersey numbers worn by gamers who’ve worn the franchise since its inception 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 group’s inception.
And whereas these Supersonics jerseys will not be 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, in the present day 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 primary of those gamers did so throughout his Seattle SuperSonics days, former guard Slick Watts. After ending his school profession at Xavier College of Louisiana, Watts wouldn’t be chosen within the 1973 NBA draft, as an alternative signing with Seattle as a free agent.
His stick with the group would span 5 seasons, ending when he was traded to the (then) New Orleans Jazz (now Utah) for draft property in 1978.
Whereas suiting up for the Sonics, Watts solely wore jersey No. 13 and averaged 10.1 factors, 3.6 rebounds, 6.7 assists and a couple of.5 steals per sport.
This text was initially revealed on OKC Thunder Wire: Historical past of the Thunder jersey n°13 – Slick Watts (1973-78).
