One bright spot in the otherwise dreary, rainy city of Seattle is its professional basketball team, the Seattle SuperSonics. The Seattle SuperSonics, based in state of Washington, is in the Northwest Division of the National Basketball Association. Basketball fans just love to buy up those Seattle SuperSonics tickets as fast as they can get their hands on them. Based in KeyArena, (formerly the Seattle Center Coliseum), the Seattle SuperSonics players provide first-rate hoop excitement to all who enjoy watching the game.

Hands down, the best year of the Seattle SuperSonics franchise was the year it went all the way to the NBA Championships in 1979. From their humble beginnings in 1967 to its pinnacle in 1979, it only took the Seattle SuperSonics twelve years to reach championship status. The Seattle SuperSonics made its first playoff appearance in 1975 then went on to be in the finals back to back in 1978 and 1979. The Seattle SuperSonics’ string of success was largely due to the undying dedication of head coach, Lenny Wilkens. Wilkens knew the game to basketball through and through. Not only did he excel as a coach, being NBA’s career leader in coaching wins and losses, he was also one heck of a player. He was drafted sixth overall by the St. Louis Hawks in the 1960 NBA Draft. Quite popular for his incredible basketball talent, he later went on to play for the Seattle SuperSonics (1968-1972), Cleveland Cavaliers (1972-1974) and Portland Trail Blazers (1974-1975). He was an all-star player an unprecedented nine times. When Wilkens was put out to pasture in 1975, he decided that his destiny with basketball was not yet fulfilled. He took off his player hat and put on his coaching hat as the full-time coach of the Trail Blazers. It was not until 1977 that he became coach for the former team he played on, the Seattle SuperSonics. He spent eight seasons as head coach and took the Seattle SuperSonics to stratespheric heights with back-to-back championship games in 1978 and 1979, ultimately winning the only NBA Championship win in the history of the franchise in 1979. He had a long fruitful career coaching various NBA basketball teams but finally called it quits on January 22, 2005. He retired with the most wins, 1,332, and losses, 1,155, in NBA history. He is also one of only three players to be inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach. With a basketball career spanning almost forty years, you would think Wilkens would relax and enjoy his retirement but think again. After retirement, Wilkens became a NBA analyst for Fox Sports Northwest in Seattle.

Like its name says, the Seattle SuperSonics is a super basketball team. Go out and buy your Seattle SuperSonics tickets to see some super-duper b-ball!