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 firstly 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 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 present they’re a part of the historical past of the Thunder. For this text, we proceed with the tenth jersey quantity within the sequence, jersey No. 8, with 17 gamers in whole having worn the jersey within the historical past of the franchise.
The eighth of those 17 gamers to put on the quantity 8 did so in the course of the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder period, Nazr Mohammed, former OKC huge man. After ending his faculty profession on the College of Kentucky, Mohammed was chosen twenty ninth general within the 1998 NBA draft by the Utah Jazz.
The Chicago, Illinois native would by no means match with the Jazz, however was as a substitute traded by the Utah Jazz to the Philadelphia 76ers for draft belongings.
He would play the primary three seasons of his NBA profession with the Sixers and likewise labored with the Atlanta Hawks, New York Knicks, San Antonio Spurs, Detroit Pistons and Charlotte Hornets (on the time, the Bobcats) earlier than being transferred to Tonnerre for Morris Peterson and DJ White.
This is able to be the primary of two stints with OKC for Mohammed, the primary ending with him signing with the Chicago Bulls as a free agent in 2012, solely to return to the Thunder as a free agent in 2016.
Whereas taking part in for Oklahoma Metropolis, Mohammed wore jerseys #8 and 13 in that order and averaged 3.7 factors and three.2 rebounds per sport.
This text was initially revealed on OKC Thunder Wire: Historical past of the Thunder jersey n°8 – Nazr Mohammed (2011-12)
