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.

Jim Fox was a journeyman for sure.  He began his professional career with Real Madrid in the Spanish League, following it with stints in R.C. Mechelen (Belgium), Cincinnati, Detroit, Phoenix, Chicago (Cincinnati again) before he got to Seattle.  He would spend three seasons with the Sonics and while he bounced around as much as a basketball, his first season in Seattle saw him average a double-double and almost did so again in his second season.  To this day, Jim Fox still holds the franchise record for rebounds in a game with 30.  The journeyman would finish his career with Milwaukee and New York.