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 in the beginning 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 for the reason that workforce’s inception.
And whereas these Supersonics jerseys is probably not 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, as we speak 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 11 gamers in complete having worn the jersey within the historical past of the franchise.
The primary of those 9 gamers to put on the quantity 6 did so throughout the Seattle SuperSonics period, Martyn “Moochie” Norris, former SuperSonics level guard. After ending his school profession with the College of West Florida, Norris was chosen thirty third total within the 1996 NBA draft by the Milwaukee Bucks, who then lower him earlier than the beginning of the season.
The Washington, District of Columbia native could be signed by the (then) Vancouver Grizzlies (now Memphis) as a free agent, and would play for them and within the Continental Basketball Affiliation (CBA – that period’s model of the G League) earlier than signing with Seattle as a free agent in 1999.
His stick with the Sonics could be short-lived – simply 12 video games – earlier than he was let go once more, later becoming a member of the Houston Rockets as a free agent.
Throughout his time in Seattle (all sporting quantity 6), Norris averaged 3.2 factors, 1.7 rebounds and a pair of.0 assists per recreation.
This text was initially printed on Celtics Wire: Historical past of the Thunder #6 jersey (1999) Moochie Norris (1999)
