Chapter 9: Thunder Team One
Under the leadership of the staff, Liu Rong came to the Chesapeake Energy Arena, the home of the Thunder, Liu Rong saw this magnificent arena, and couldn't help but sigh that the basketball stadiums in the United States are so luxurious, and then under the leadership of the staff, Liu Rong got to know the facilities of the stadium. [Ran^Text^Library] []
Finally came to a private room, the staff began to talk about the history of the Thunder: Oklahoma City Thunder, is a professional basketball team based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, belongs to the National Basketball Association, joined the NBA league in 1966, is part of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the United States Men's Basketball Professional League, the predecessor of the Oklahoma City Thunder is the Seattle SuperSonics, the team announced a new team name on September 3, 2008: Thunder, The team also moved to Oklahoma City. In the 2011-12 season, the Thunder relied on Kevin? Durant, James? Harden, Russell? Westbrook and others played well to become the champion of the West, but they were defeated 4-1 by the Miami Heat in the finals. On April 16, 2013, the Thunder defeated the Kings to lock up the 2012-13 MLS regular season in the West. The Seattle SuperSonics was born in Seattle and is home to the headquarters of Boeing, the world's largest aircraft manufacturer. When the team was founded in 1967, Boeing was developing and building supersonic airliners, and the basketball team created with Boeing's help chose the name "supersound". In the summer of 2008, the Seattle SuperSonics moved their home stadium to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the team changed its name to the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Come with me, I will take you to see the history of the Thunder, and at the same time, it is also an introduction to the history of the supersound, and after the staff finished speaking, they took Liu Rong to the cultural corridor of the Thunder, and began to introduce the situation of each season again.
"First of all, the '67-'73 season, which you're looking at now, and of course my speech, Seattle was allowed to form a team to join the NBA on December 20, 1966, and the team started playing in the NBA in the 1967-68 season, and the San Diego Rockets entered the NBA in the same year. The SuperSonics used the No. 6 pick in the first round to select Baptiste University player Al Bush in the 1967 draft. Tucker, the freshman team hired Al? Bianchi as the first bishop. The 1967-68 season ended the SuperSonics' first season with a 23-59 record, the second-to-last in the league, but the San Diego Rockets' 15-67 was even worse. The team lost 116-144 to the San Francisco Warriors in the first game of franchise history. He only won the first game in Game 3 of the season against the San Diego Rockets, who were also new to the NBA. In their Dec. 20 game against the Philadelphia 76ers, they were scored 160 points, the most points conceded in franchise history. The SuperSonics also had four other games in which opponents scored more than 150 points in the remainder of the season, and the team conceded an average of 125.1 points per game that season. The SuperSonics' top scorer came on the night of Feb. 11, when they won 146-118 over the San Francisco Warriors. In 1968-69, Bianchi continued to be the team's head coach, and the team's record improved seven games from 1967-68, finishing the season with 30 wins and 52 losses. In the second half of the season, the SuperSonics had a five-game winning streak and seven wins in eight games. Unfortunately, in the following games, the team entered a slump, losing 10 games in a row, which is also the second-most consecutive losses in the team's history, and finished the last 20 games with 2 wins and 18 losses. Before the start of the 1969-70 season, the SuperSonics completed the most important trade in the franchise's history at the time. Hazzard sent to St. Louis Hawks in exchange for Lenny? Wilkens. Lenny? Wilkens became a player-coach in the 1969-70 season, while the team's record improved to 36-46. The SuperSonics finished the regular season in fifth place in the West, 12 games behind the Atlanta Hawks in first place. On the player side: Lanny? Wilkens is the league's assists leader with an average of 9.1 assists per game, while also contributing 17.8 points. Bob? Once again, Ruhr had a 20+10 record, averaging 24.6 points and 10.3 rebounds per game. In the 1970-71 season, the SuperSonics improved their record to 38-44. Because of Lenny? Wilkens had a very good result for the player-coach, so the team management decided to bring Tom? Messicheri was also appointed as a player-coach. This season, the SuperSonics have been excellent at home: 27 wins and 13 losses. The team is an offensive team and has averaged 115 points per game this season. On the player side: Lanny? Wilkens played in his third All-Star Game with the SuperSonics and won the All-Star Game MVP with 21 points per game, averaging 19.8 points and 9.2 assists per game, ranking second only to the Cincinnati Royals' Noam? Van Leer was No. 2. Teammate Kirk? Snyder was equally impressive, averaging 19.4 points per game while he ranked fifth in the league in shooting 53.1 percent from the field and 83.7 percent from the free-throw line. That's probably what happened this season, so let's move on to the '73 to '97 season," the staff said
Liu Rong continued to look at the history of the Thunder, and the staff explained: "Before the start of the 1973-74 season, the SuperSonics were playing with Beal? Russell signed on, and as the team's head coach and general manager, the team has attracted a lot of attention in the league. The team's record has also improved somewhat this season: 36-46, 10 more wins than 1972-73 to finish the regular season. The SuperSonics are third in the Pacific Division, 11 games behind the Lakers. On the player side: Jim? Fox grabbed a team-high 30 rebounds against the Lakers on December 26, 1973. On January 23, 1974, Fred? Brown scored the most points in the team's game against the Golden State Warriors, also for a team-high 58 points. In the 1974-75 season, Bill? Russell once again became the coach and manager of the SuperSonics, and the team made the playoffs for the first time. From 1977 to 1980, the supersonic team began to enter its heyday. In the 1977-78 season, Lanny? Wilkens became the head coach of the SuperSonics again, and the SuperSonics went into the playoffs with a 47-35 record. After a 2-1 win over the Lakers in the first round of the playoffs (the first round was a best-of-3 series), they then beat the Trail Blazers and Nuggets to meet the Washington Bullets in the Finals, and after seven games between the two teams, the SuperSonics lost 99-105 in the final game and missed out on the championship. In the 1978-79 season, the SuperSonics surpassed 50 wins for the first time in the regular season, playing the first 50+ wins season in franchise history, and entered the playoffs with a 52-30 record. After beating the Lakers and Suns in the playoffs, the SuperSonics met the Bullets again in the Finals. After losing the first game, the SuperSonics won four games in a row to win the first NBA championship in franchise history. In the decade of the 80s, the SuperSonics had ups and downs, and they made the playoffs five times in ten years. At the end of the 1985-86 season, head coach Lennie? Wilkens hung the seal, and the SuperSonics ended the "Wilkens era". Wilkens won the team's only championship trophy for the SuperSonics during his tenure with the SuperSonics, with a record of 478 wins and 402 losses. In the '80s, the team was worth mentioning in the 1986-87 season, when the SuperSonics sent Sikma away. When Sikma left the SuperSonics, he had a total of 7,729 rebounds, 705 blocks and 3,044 free throws for the SuperSonics, all of which were the highest on the team. Sikma's No. 43 jersey was also retired by the SuperSonics. In the 1986-87 season, the SuperSonics had a record of 39-43, but still made the playoffs, and after eliminating the Mavericks and Rockets in the playoffs, the SuperSonics met the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals, but were eliminated by the Lakers with a 0-4 overall score. In the 1990-91 season, K?C. Jones was hired as the new head coach of the SuperSonics, taking over from Bernie? In Bickerstaff's position, K.C. Jones led the Celtics to two championships as a coach and has eight championship rings as a player. But Jones' arrival this time didn't bring the SuperSonics out of mediocrity, and the regular season record was still 41-41, earning the last playoff ticket in the West. On the player side: Derek? McGee's average of 15.3 points per game and Shaun's? Kemp's average of 15 points per game ranks among the top two on the team, while he also averaged 8.4 rebounds per game and set a record for the SuperSonics by giving away 10 big hats to the Lakers on January 18, 1991. Rookie Gary from Oregon State University? Peyton replaces Nate? McMillan is the starting point guard and is the team's assist leader with an average of 6.4 assists per game. In the 1991-92 season, the SuperSonics continued to be in transition, but they performed well in the second half of the season. After the team went 18-18, head coach K.C. Jones was fired on January 15, 1992. A week later, the team hired George? Carl as the new head coach, George? Karl's arrival boosted the team's morale, with a 27-15 record for the remainder of the season. The team has a 47-35 record in the regular season and is fourth in the Pacific Division. In the playoffs, the SuperSonics defeated the Golden State Warriors 3-1 in the first round, but advanced to the Western Conference semifinals, losing to the Jazz 1-4 overall. On the player side: Ricky? Pierce is the team's leading scorer with an average of 21.7 points per game and ranks third in the league with a 91.6 percent free-throw percentage. Cage ranks fifth in 56.6 percent shooting percentage. Dana? Barros is the league's three-point leader with a 44.6 percent three-point shooting percentage. In 1992-93, the SuperSonics had the second-best regular season record in franchise history at 55-27, finishing second in the Pacific Division behind the Suns. In the playoffs, the SuperSonics completed the revenge battle with a 3-2 overall victory over the Jazz in the first round; Later, in the Western Conference semifinals, the Rockets were eliminated by winning overtime in Game 7. In the Western Conference Finals, the SuperSonics lost to the Suns with a total score of 3-4 and missed the Finals. On the player side: Ricky? Pierce once again became the team's leading scorer with an average of 18.2 points per game. Veteran Eddie? Johnson ranks third in the league with 91.1 percent free throw percentage. Nate? McMillan is tied for 4th with 2.37 steals per game, while Payton is 9th with 2.16 steals. In the 993-94 season, the SuperSonics' results plummeted like a roller coaster, ending the regular season with a best NBA record of 63-19, and when they won the first two games against the Nuggets in the first round of the playoffs, they were eliminated by the Nuggets with three consecutive wins, becoming the first team in NBA history to be eliminated by the 8th place in the playoffs. But three players on the team are in the top 14 of the league's steals list. Nate? McMillan (No. 1), Gary? Payton (No. 7) and Gill (No. 14). Payton's average score increased to 16.5. Sean? Kemp was named to the NBA Second Team with an average of 18.1 points and 10.8 rebounds per game. In the 1995-96 season, by George? In Carr's fourth season, the SuperSonics have had even more brilliant results. By the end of the regular season, the SuperSonics had a 64-18 record. In the playoffs, the SuperSonics won the first round against the Kings with an overall score of 3-2. In the Western Conference semifinals, the SuperSonics swept the defending champion Rockets. The SuperSonics then defeated the Jazz after seven hard-fought battles to reach the Finals for the first time since winning the championship in 1979. But in the Finals, they lost to the Bulls with a total score of 2-4. On the player side: Sean? Camp and Gary? The two played in the All-Star Game at the same time. Kemp is the team's leading scorer with an average of 19.6 points per game. Payton became the league's steal leader with an average of 2.85 steals per game and was awarded the NBA Defensive Player of the Year award. In the 1996-97 season, after the team had a 57-25 record in the regular season, the SuperSonics lost to the Rockets in the Western Conference semifinals in the playoffs after seven games. Karl also sees a lot of things in the team that can be improved next season and a lot of strengths for the team. For the fifth consecutive season, the SuperSonics have 55+ wins in the regular season. At the same time, the SuperSonics also recorded a league-best 26 road wins, becoming the first team in NBA history to hold the top spot in the league for five consecutive seasons, averaging 11.02 steals per game. That's the Thunder's up-and-down season. The staff said with a variety of expressions.
Liu Rong listened to it more sadly, and the staff immediately recovered their expressions and continued, and then continued to talk about the 97 afterward, and after speaking, he took Liu Rong to continue to watch the pictures after 97.