Seattle Supersonics Tickets

You name it; this franchise has seen it since entering the NBA in a 1967 expansion. Winning? Seattle Supersonics captured the NBA championship in 1979 and won 60 or more games three times in the 1990s, ruling their division for a long stretch. Losing? The Sonics' long and frustrating string of playoff struggles includes a 1993-94 team that was the first No. 1 seed in NBA history to fall to a No. 8 seed (Denver) in the opening round. Offense? Some of the best shooters in the game have worn Seattle Supersonic's green and yellow jersey, including record-setting 3-point aces Dale Ellis and "Downtown" Freddie Brown. Defense? Its how the franchise won its only title in '79. More recently, Gary Payton (traded for Ray Allen in 2002-03) wore a Seattle Supersonics tickets jersey when he made the NBA AII-Defensive First Team eight years in a row and became the first guard since Michael Jordan to win a Defensive Player of the Year Award.

1967-68 Coach Al Bianchi guides Seattle Supersonics Tickets into the NBA. Its initial win comes against the other expansion team, the San Diego Rockets.
1969-70 Before the season, Lenny Wilkens is named player-coach.
1970-71 Wilkens wins All-Star MVP honors.
1971-72 Spencer Haywood signs in mid-year. After the season, the Sonics draft "Downtown" Fred Brown.
1974-75 Seattle Supersonics Tickets makes the playoffs for the first time, topping Detroit.
1978-79 The Sonics hold foes to a league-low 103.9 PPG en route to an NBA title, topping Washington in five games one year after falling to the Bullets in seven. Gus Williams and Dennis Johnson lead the team in scoring and Jack Sikma patrols the paint.
1979-80 In the first year of the 3-point shot, Brown leads the NBA in accuracy.
1986-87 Dale Ellis, Tom Chambers and Xavier McDaniel become the first teammate trio in history to each average 23 PPG or better.
1992-93 George Karl, who had taken over as coach the previous season, steers the Sonics to one game short of the Finals.
1993-94 All-Stars Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp power the Seattle Supersonics Tickets to the best record in the NBA (63-19), but No. 8 seed Denver shocks them in the first round.
1995-96 This time, Seattle Supersonics Tickets backs up its great record (64-18) with a trip to the Finals, where Chicago wins in six. Payton is named Defensive Player of the Year.
1997-98 Vin Baker helps Seattle Supersonics Tickets eclipse 60 wins for the third time in five seasons.
2000-01 Former Sonics great Nate McMillan is named head coach.
2003-04 In his first full season in Seattle Supersonics after a 2003 trade for Payton, Ray Allen overcomes an early-season injury to lead the Sonics in scoring.