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 complete historical past of jersey numbers and the gamers who wore them for the reason that 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, at this time they’re a part of the historical past of the Thunder.
For this text, we proceed with the twelfth jersey quantity within the collection, jersey No. 10, with eight gamers in complete having donned the jersey within the historical past of the franchise.
The eighth of these eight gamers to put on quantity 10 did so throughout his Seattle SuperSonics days, former guard Nate McMillan. After ending his school profession at North Carolina State, McMillan was chosen by the SuperSonics with the thirtieth total choice within the 1986 NBA Draft, the place he would spend his total NBA profession.
That profession would span a complete of a dozen seasons, ending on the finish of the 1997-98 season, when the Raleigh, North Carolina native referred to as time on his taking part in days.
Whereas suiting up for Seattle, McMillan solely wore the No. 10 jersey and averaged 5.9 factors, 4.0 rebounds, 6.1 assists and 1.9 steals per sport.
This text was initially revealed on OKC Thunder Wire: Historical past of the Thunder jersey n°10 – Nate McMillan (1986-88)
