The 1979 Seattle Supersonics were both a franchise on the rise, as well as one that had a bitter taste in their mouths over the end of the previous season. Those two elements combined to make them NBA champions. Seattle made a surprise run to the Finals in 1978 before losing a Game 7 at […]
The 1979 NBA playoffs did not have a marquee Finals matchup or a thrilling finish—the Seattle Sonics and Washington Bullets, who played in the 1978 NBA Finals, rematched for the title, with the Sonics winning in five games—but the playoffs in their entirety were as exciting as you could ask. Both conference finals went seven games, as did both Eastern Conference semi-finals and 3-1 series leads proved paper-thin.