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 initially 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 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 the 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 whole having worn the jersey within the historical past of the franchise.
The tenth of those gamers did it within the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder period, former striker Ousmane Dieng. After ending his profession abroad, Dieng was chosen with the eleventh general choice within the 2022 NBA Draft by the New York Knicks.
The Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France native, nonetheless, could be traded to the Thunder that night, the place he would play each season of his skilled profession to date, nonetheless with OKC presently.
Whereas suiting up for the Thunder, Dieng solely wore jersey No. 13 and averaged 4.2 factors, 2.2 rebounds and 1.1 assists per recreation.
This text was initially printed on OKC Thunder Wire: Historical past of the Thunder jersey n°13 – Ousmane Dieng (2022-25)
