Oklahoma City's Hamidou Diallo (6) performs a dunk during an NBA basketball game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the New Orleans Pelicans at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City on Saturday 2 November 2019. [Bryan Terry/The Oklahoman]

Oklahoma Metropolis’s Hamidou Diallo (6) performs a dunk throughout an NBA basketball recreation between the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder and the New Orleans Pelicans at Chesapeake Power Area in Oklahoma Metropolis on Saturday 2 November 2019. [Bryan Terry/The Oklahoman]

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 firstly 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 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, in the present day they’re a part of the historical past of the Thunder. For this text, we proceed with the eighth jersey quantity within the collection, jersey No. 6, with a complete of 11 gamers having donned the jersey within the historical past of the franchise.

The fourth of those 9 gamers to put on the quantity 6 did so in the course of the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder period, Hamidou Diallo, previously of the OKC wing. After ending his school profession on the College of Kentucky, Diallo was chosen by the Nets with the forty fifth choose within the 2018 NBA Draft, however was traded for Timofey Mozgov, money and draft belongings to the Charlotte Hornets shortly after. a while later.

He would shortly be on the transfer once more – this time to the Thunder for draft belongings – touchdown with the workforce he would play for elements of the primary three seasons of his skilled profession.

That stint led to 2021 when he was traded to the Detroit Pistons for Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk and draft belongings. Throughout his time enjoying for Oklahoma Metropolis, Diallo averaged 6.9 factors, 3.3 rebounds and 1.0 assists per recreation.

This text was initially printed on OKC Thunder Wire: Historical past of the Thunder N°6 jersey – Hamidou Diallo (2018-21)

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