SEATTLE — Gus "The Wizard" Williams, a former Seattle Supersonics player who led the team to its only NBA championship in 1979, has died at age 71. Williams spent six seasons of his NBA career with ...

NOTE: Following is the third installment of a four-part blog series on the NBA Finals. The author, while working for newspapers in Olympia and Bremerton, covered three games in Portland during the ...

NBA champion Gus Williams, who played for 11 years and led the Seattle SuperSonics to their only championship in 1979, died on Wednesday at age 71. The Washington Wizards, who Williams played for in ...

In February 1997, Wilt Chamberlain, then 60 years old, was one of the legendary figures honored during NBA All-Star Weekend in Cleveland, celebrating the league’s 50 greatest players. Reflecting back ...

Fans in Seattle are still a little salty over Oklahoma City's heist of their beloved SuperSonics. So it was probably a smart move to not throw anymore shade in the northwest's direction by stealing ...

TIEBREAKER BASIS FOR TWO-WAY TIES: TIEBREAKER BASIS FOR MULTI-WAY TIES: Ties for playoff positions (including division winners) will be broken utilizing the criteria set forth in subparagraph a. below ...

Basketball taught Paul Silas how to be patient. As a player, he waited 10 years before winning his first championship. As a coach, he waited 15 years for a second chance at running a team. As a father ...

In 1979, the New York Knicks drafted Bill Cartwright, a 7'1" center from the University of San Francisco, third overall. And on October 12, Cartwright made his NBA debut against the Atlanta Hawks. The ...

On a spring day in 1979, a conference call was held by then-NBA commissioner Larry O'Brien with the Chicago Bulls and Los ...

The NBA awards a franchise to Seattle, to be christened the SuperSonics and to begin play for the 1967-68 season at the Seattle Center Coliseum. The Sonics debuted on Oct. 13, 1967, with a 144-116 ...