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 at the beginning of the 1967-68 season. To commemorate the gamers who wore these numbers, Thunder Wire covers all the historical past of jersey numbers and the gamers who wore them for the reason that staff’s inception.
And whereas these Supersonics jerseys will 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, at present they’re a part of the historical past of the Thunder.
For this text, we proceed with the thirteenth jersey quantity within the collection, jersey No. 11, with a complete of 16 gamers having donned the jersey within the historical past of the franchise.
The primary of those 16 gamers to put on the quantity 11 did so throughout his Seattle SuperSonics days, former massive man Andreas Glyniadakis. After starting his skilled profession abroad, Glyniadakis was chosen 58th total within the 2003 NBA Draft by the Detroit Pistons.
The Hania, Greece native, nonetheless, by no means performed for the Pistons, however was minimize by the staff a number of months after the draft. Signing with Seattle as a free agent in 2006, he performed his solely season within the league with that staff.
Whereas suiting up for the SuperSonics, Glyniadakis solely wore jersey No. 11 and scored 1.3 factors per sport.
This text was initially printed on OKC Thunder Wire: Historical past of the Thunder jersey n°11 – Andreas Glyniadakis (2006-07)
