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. 

Criminally underrated, Ruben Patterson played only two seasons for the Seattle SuperSonics where he had two offensive seasons over eleven Points per Game.  In terms of advanced metrics, his best two years were with Seattle, where he had his best season in terms of PER, Win Shares and VORP.  Patterson would have a better overall run in Portland, but his best 82 Game run was with Seattle.