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Seattle SuperSonics: 9 stars you forgot played for the Sonics

By Luke Duffy

Seattle SuperSonics' Patrick Ewing (L) battles with former teammate Larry Johnson (R) for a rebound in the first quarter at Madison Square Garden in New York 27 February 2001. Ewing, who was traded from the Knicks to Seattle in the off-season, was making his first visit to New York since the trade. AFP PHOTO Henny Ray ABRAMS (Photo by HENNY RAY ABRAMS / AFP) (Photo credit should read HENNY RAY ABRAMS/AFP via Getty Images)
Seattle SuperSonics' Patrick Ewing (L) battles with former teammate Larry Johnson (R) for a rebound in the first quarter at Madison Square Garden in New York 27 February 2001. Ewing, who was traded from the Knicks to Seattle in the off-season, was making his first visit to New York since the trade. AFP PHOTO Henny Ray ABRAMS (Photo by HENNY RAY ABRAMS / AFP) (Photo credit should read HENNY RAY ABRAMS/AFP via Getty Images) /
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The Seattle Supersonics may be no more, but that only makes the stars who you forgot suited up for them even more mythical.

For many NBA fans, the Seattle SuperSonics represent an era of basketball that no longer exists. They are far from the team of the 90s, they never won a championship during this period and a certain guy by the name of Michael Jordan overshadowed everybody during that decade, even when he wasn’t playing.

But those iconic jerseys, the duo of Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp, make them an organization that is remembered fondly by a lot of people. The city of Seattle should still have an NBA team, but we are not here to argue that fact. Rather take this opportunity when there are no games being played to celebrate some of the lesser heralded stars who lined out for them.

As before, the term star is certainly used loosely here. But the hope is that you can appreciate each of the following players who represented the SuperSonics. Guys like Nick Collison miss the cut, even if the more casual of fans remember him in an Oklahoma City Thunder jersey, as opposed to the SuperSonics who drafted him.

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Something else that sticks out, and makes the fact the SuperSonics are no longer around, is the rich history that the organization had as part of the league, which included a championship in 1969.  Their time as a franchise linking the past with a new era of basketball.

They were there for the basketball boom as a result of the “Bird vs Magic” feud, tussled with Jordan and by the end had potential stars in Kevin Durant and Jeff Green (even if that one didn’t quite work out) on their roster. The following are nine players who suited up for the SuperSonics, with most being lost to history at this point.