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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Sonics and legendary Head Coach Lenny Wilkens win their first NBA title, led by their stars Gus Williams (23 points) and Dennis Johnson (21 points).

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 ...

Paxson was selected 12th overall in the 1979 NBA Draft by the Portland Trail Blazers and enjoyed an 11-year NBA career, earning two NBA All-Star selections and a Second Team All-NBA selection in 1984.