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 all the historical past of jersey numbers and the gamers who wore them for the reason that crew’s inception.
And whereas these Supersonics jerseys might not be a part of the franchise’s historical past if a brand new crew 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 eighth jersey quantity within the collection, jersey No. 6, with 11 gamers in whole having worn the jersey within the historical past of the franchise.
The second of those 9 gamers to put on the quantity 6 did so through the Seattle SuperSonics period and was the final participant to put on the quantity for the franchise earlier than it grew to become primary. Oklahoma Metropolis ThunderEddie Gill III, former Seattle flooring common.
After ending his collegiate play with Weber State, Gill was not chosen within the 2000 NBA draft, as an alternative signing with the (defunct) Las Vegas Silver Bandits of the Worldwide Basketball League (a contender short-lived Continental Basketball Affiliation, the model of that period). of the G League) and the (additionally defunct) Kansas Metropolis Knights of the American Basketball Affiliation (one other CBA competitor that may quickly additionally disappear, to not be confused with the NBA’s main league competitor of the Sixties and 1970).
After these alternatives dried up, Gill signed a pair of 10-day contracts with the (then) New Jersey (now Brooklyn) Nets. He would additionally play for the Memphis Grizzlies, within the D League (because the G League was then known as), the Portland Path Blazers, the Indiana Pacers, abroad and again to the Nets earlier than they lower him in 2007, The Aurora, Colorado, native signed with the SuperSonics as a free agent shortly thereafter.
His keep in Seattle can be as transient as potential, simply 1 recreation, earlier than he was lower once more, finally touchdown with the Milwaukee Bucks. In his lone season (recreation, actually) as quantity 6 for the Sonics, Gill had 1 help.
This text was initially printed on OKC Thunder Wire: Historical past of the Thunder jersey n°6 – Eddie Gill (2008)
