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1979 Seattle SuperSonics: The Complete Champions

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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 […]

1978 Seattle SuperSonics: The Improbable Finals Run

The Seattle SuperSonics (today’s Oklahoma City Thunder) didn’t have much of a history coming into 1978. Since their founding a decade earlier, the Sonics had made the playoffs just twice. They were known more for the fame of their coach—Celtic legend Bill Russell was on the sidelines for those postseason trips of 1975-76 but was […]