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The team joined the NBA in 1967 as an expansion team, and won their first and only NBA Championship out of 22 playoffs appearances in the 1979 NBA Finals. The SuperSonics played their home games mainly at the Seattle Center Coliseum , the Kingdome during eight seasons, and the Tacoma Dome for one season while the Coliseum was being remodeled ...
The final Seattle SuperSonics game at KeyArena during the 2007–08 season The Seattle SuperSonics, also known the Sonics, are a former professional basketball team based from Seattle, Washington, United States, that played from 1967 to 2008. They were members of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1970 onward; the team played in the conference's Pacific ...
The Seattle SuperSonics (commonly shortened to Sonics) were an American professional basketball team based in Seattle.The SuperSonics competed in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Western Division (1967–1970), and later as a member of the Western Conference's Pacific (1970–2004) and Northwest (2004–2008) divisions.
Category: Seattle SuperSonics players. 28 languages. ... This is a list of basketball players who have played in the NBA for the Seattle SuperSonics Pages in category ...
[25] [26] [27] This Sonics team is regarded as one of the best defensive teams in the late 90s. Led by Kemp and Payton, the two formed "Sonic Boom", one of the most electrifying tandems in NBA history. In the playoffs, the SuperSonics faced the 8th-seeded Sacramento Kings in the Western Conference First Round.
Johnson was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the 7th pick of the 1970 NBA draft. Johnson was also selected in the 1970 ABA Draft by the Texas Chaparrals. [4] He was the first Cavaliers player to play in an NBA All Star Game. In 1977, Johnson was traded to the Seattle SuperSonics and was reunited with former Iowa Hawkeye teammate Fred Brown.
Johnson was chosen as the No. 7 overall pick in the 1979 NBA draft by the Seattle SuperSonics. He was traded to the Detroit Pistons in November 1981. [ 2 ] During the 1982-83 NBA season , Johnson scored a career high 15.8 points a game while starting in 51 of the 82 games he played in. [ 3 ] For the rest of his career, he would mostly play as ...
The 1990–91 NBA season was the 23rd season for the Seattle SuperSonics in the National Basketball Association. [1] Head coach Bernie Bickerstaff was replaced by his former assistant K. C. Jones, and went on to occupy the desk of vice-president of Basketball Operations for Seattle, [2] resigning months later to accept a job as General Manager of the Denver Nuggets. [3]