Which team represents city's NBA future?
Hornets or SuperSonics? Which franchise represents Oklahoma City’s NBA future?
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Meet the Sonics
Best player: Ray Allen is the smoothest shooter in the NBA. He’s a six-time NBA All-Star with a 25.1 point per game average. But how will Allen be holding up in 2010?
Their coach: The Sonics canned Bob Weiss midway through the season and moved up Bob Hill. From 1994 through 1996, Hill coached San Antonio to a record of 121-43, won two division titles and guided his team to the Western Conference Finals in 1995.
Are they good? As recently as two seasons ago, the Sonics made it to the Western Conference semifinals, but the team has missed the playoffs three of the last four years. The team went gradually downhill as Nate McMillan left as coach, Gary Payton went looking for a title and Shawn Kemp got fat.
How have their drafts gone? Check out these stellar names - Saer Sene (that guy from Senegal); Johan Petro (a French 7-footer) and Robert Swift (a high school project). Seattle is searching for a big man who can do it all.
Have they ever been good? In the 90s, the Sonics had a talented team built around Payton, Kemp and Detlef Schrempf, but they couldn’t get past Chicago in the 1996 NBA Finals and lost in the 1997 Conference semifinals in seven games to Houston.
But in the late 1970s, the Sonics made it to a pair of finals against Washington, losing in seven games in 1978 and winning the 1979 NBA title. Gus Williams averaged 26 points a game during the playoffs.
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