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The 1968–69 Seattle SuperSonics season was the second season of the Seattle franchise in the NBA.The Sonics finished the regular season with a 30–52 record in 6th place on the Western Division.
The SuperSonics registered an attendance of 202,263 during the regular season, the sixth best in the league in that regard. [17] Walt Hazzard was selected to represent the West in the 1968 NBA All-Star Game [18] and Bob Rule and Al Tucker were selected to the NBA All-Rookie First Team. [19]
The Seattle SuperSonics and the San Diego Rockets begin play as the league expands to 12 teams. The NBA expands its regular season from 81 games per team to 82 games, where it still stands to this date. The 1968 NBA All-Star Game was played at the Madison Square Garden in New York City, with the East beating the West 144–124.
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.
The 1968–69 NBA season was the 23rd season of the National Basketball Association. ... Seattle SuperSonics: Seattle, Washington: Seattle Center Coliseum: 13,200
SuperSonics point guard Gus Williams during Game 3 of the 1979 NBA Finals, played at the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington, on May 27, 1979. The Sonics won the game, 95-105, and eventually the ...
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 and ...
A second round pick in the 1967 NBA draft, Rule quickly became one of the stars of Seattle's expansion franchise. [6] [7] Named to the 1967–68 NBA All-Rookie Team, Rule's 18.1 points per game average stood as the SuperSonics rookie record for forty seasons, until broken by Kevin Durant in 2008.