Antonio Daniels played for Seattle for two of his thirteen seasons in the NBA, where he was used as a backup Point Guard.  It was actually in Seattle where he had has largest PPG (9.7) and had his only 10 Points per Game Season.  It is certainly worth noting that his two best PER seasons were with the Sonics, posting numbers of 19.7 ad 18.0 respectively.

Eddie Johnson was the named the Sixth Man of the Year when he was the Phoenix Suns in 1988-89 and while he was with the SuperSonics for two and a half years he was still a contender for that award.  Coming off of the bench for Seattle, Johnson averaged 16.2 Points per Game for the team and in his career he had over 19,000 Points, a number that puts him deep into the all-time list.

January 4 – 17, 1960
Marty Robbins
El Paso

Born in China to Russian immigrants, Tomislav Mescheryakov would come to the United States as a child, though due to anti-Communist sentiment the family would “Americanize” their names and thus Tom Meschery would emerge as a star At St. Mary’s.  Following a very successful run with the Philadelphia/San Francsico Warriors, the brand new Seattle SuperSonics would select him the expansion draft.